Is this claim true?

alphastrike212 · 2020-01-04T07:04:06+00:00

The Guardian... no click.

tallgirl266 · 2020-01-04T06:27:46+00:00

Women feel the pain more than men but can endure it longer than the opposite gender. Also, they forgot the pain[which explain why a lot of womens go throught pregnancy many times even tho it's really painfull] but men do not forgot pain. So, everytime they go througt the same level of pain, it feel worse than the last time.

You can search it if you want to lazy to list source and sorry for any gramatical error, english is not my first language.

vonthe · 2020-01-04T15:01:00+00:00

Initial quick research indicates that this may not be true, or at least that the central claim may not be true.

I have some peripheral familiarity with this area, as I have worked with two people, one male and one female, who participated. The area of competition is so small that one athlete being injured, or sick, or having an off day(s) can affect things pretty dramatically.

The linked article above on Wikipedia shows the standard 5-15% difference in performance, at least at ultra-endurance running.

Race times converted to minutes for easy calculation. I didn't do all lengths because I just don't have that kind of time.

Race Length	Men	Women	Diff(%)
50km	163	188	15.3
100km	369	393	6.5
1000km	8177	12608	54.6
6 days	1036(km)	883(km)	14.7

The 100 km and 1000 km seem like outliers, but as I said above, the field is so small that the loss of a single athlete can change things pretty dramatically.

JohnDoethan · 2020-01-04T06:07:24+00:00

Does it matter?

A female beat a male at a "sport" so niche its never been spoken of... Congrats I guess??

menstruatrix · 2020-01-04T07:11:13+00:00

It's appears to be true in much the same sense as the claim that the USWNT is better at soccer than the USMNT.

iainmf · 2020-01-04T10:50:14+00:00

Please remember to use descriptive titles.

It makes the sub easier to use because people know what something is without clicking on it, and it makes it easier to search for specific things on the sub.

RoryTate · 2020-01-04T16:57:13+00:00

I don't know much about this specific event, but this reads similar to the old claim that "women sweat more efficiently" than men. I've heard this "fact" about women not losing as much water as men when exercising asserted many times to support the idea that women are better in endurance-focused activities. This article is almost a cut-and-paste of those pieces (though this one tends to read more like a stealth marketing campaign, filled as it is with slick images and advertiser-friendly descriptions of the activities). The problem with this idea of female advantage is that the claim – when actually stated objectively in sports science – only exists under very specific conditions: "Women sweat more efficiently than men when both are exerting maximum effort". Yet when you think about that statement for a moment, it's a meaningless distinction and almost a tautology, because of course a machine is less efficient when forced to run in its highest gear. And men can achieve a much greater speed than women on average (running, swimming, cycling, etc), despite having more mass to move. So it stands to reason that they have to generate more heat, since they are expending more energy.

The truth it that when the two sexes are normalized, and run at a comparable speed for their weight, then there is no measurable difference in how the two groups sweat. And when properly pacing themselves, men perform better on average in all sport than women. So this is likely just more ideological propaganda and biased interpretations of science by the media.

goodmod · 2020-01-05T03:13:32+00:00

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Title	Is this claim true?
Author	gartpriess
Upvotes	2
Comments	14
Date	January 4, 2020 6:01 AM UTC (6 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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