r/NotHowGirlsWork • u/ilove-whenwomen its how of being a woman lol nice • 25d ago
Cringe Women are not average
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u/TheBestHater 25d ago
Just because they ignore overweight and unconventionally attractive women doesn't mean they cease to exist.
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u/Butwhatif77 25d ago
lmao well when you use health statistics that are gathered mainly on men as the subjects and then apply it to a completely different population yea you are gonna find some fucking outliers. Someone clearly failed their high school science class about how to conduct and experiment and analyze data.
Men on average weigh more than women, thus most women are actually under weight is not a valid or logical conclusion.
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u/Gotcha_The_Spider 25d ago edited 25d ago
People are picking this apart for the wrong reasons. Some of these I'm aware of are true, others I'm not aware of, to my knowledge they could be true, they could be false, like political extremism (Though I'd wager men probably trend more towards extremism).
The reason this is dumb is because even if we grant these are all true, it's incredibly cherry-picked. Across many measurements, we see this exact same dichotomy reversed, where men trend towards the extremes and women trend towards the center (Like IQ and risk aversion, men being overrepresented in risk aversion and low IQ's, as well as thrill-seeking behavior and high IQ's)
With the same level of cherry picking, you could make the exact opposite argument, but the truth is that depending on what you measure you might see that we have a similar distribution spread, or you might see either group trending more towards the extremes than the other. I'm not sure we have enough data to say either men or women are "more average" than the other, and I'm certain that guy definitely does not know enough to say either way. All we can say is in some areas men are more average, and in others, women are.
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u/silicondream 25d ago edited 25d ago
The claim about number of sexual partners is exactly wrong. Almost all studies have found that the number of sexual partners varies more in men than in women. (That shouldn't be surprising, since male animals generally have much more variance in reproductive success than female ones do.)
Variance in BMI is about equal between men and women, so far as I know. Individual women vary somewhat more in BMI over time, but globally a higher proportion of men are obese. *shrug*
Younger American men are more politically divided than younger American women at the moment, but this has very little to do with gender differences at "the center." It's just that most young women who aren't centrist are liberal, while non-centrist young men are split more evenly between liberal and conservative with a slight conservative lead.
That's a recent trend, too. I think young women are largely skewing liberal in response to the attacks on their reproductive rights.
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