Well, that's better. At least you're looking at the data, albeit with a possible bit of prejudice. Munatone's speculation may be right, but there might also be something about the English Channel swim that favors elite male swimmers. My reading indicates that tides, weather, and shipping traffic are highly variable in the Channel, but having no experience with it, I can't say how much of an element chance plays in swimmer times.Cunt wrote:Maybe it's the Patriarchy hiding their dominance. And as to the Olympic events remaining dominated by men, that's just part of the conspiracy to hide the superiority of women in endurance swimming.
From your 'study', the one who was obsessively studying is quoted as saying:Also from the same article:In just one of those events — open-water, ultra-distance swimming — women were “able to achieve a similar or better performance compared to men,” he said.I'll read you the whole article, if you couldn't be bothered...but it says clearly...Steven Munatones, considered one of the foremost experts on open-water swimming. A few years ago — purely to satisfy his own curiosity — Munatones analyzed the finishing times of men and women who participated in the biggest ultra-distance swims around the world. He did this for three years, keeping track of “12 or 13” races — he can’t remember exactly. He never intended to publish these results anywhere; again, this was for his own curiosity, as a coach and as an open-water swimming fan. Here’s what he found. “If you’re looking at the average times — the average woman is faster than the average man,” said MunatonesIt looks like the lower-body bouyancy might be a factor, but even with this advantage, they don't seem to translate that into olympic gold. Just better average-joe level performance.In contrast to Knechtle’s studies of the Manhattan Island Marathon Swim and the Catalina Channel Swim, Munatones’s data suggest that the fastest women are still slower than the fastest men. He suspects Knechtle and his colleagues arrived at their conclusion because the events they studied are relatively small, and don’t attract the caliber of athletes that, say, the English Channel does. (“You’re talking Olympians, fast pool swimmers, everybody,” Munatones said. “That’s where everybody goes.”) Several times over the past century, for example, a young woman or teenage girl has held the record for fastest English Channel swim. In 1926, 20-year-old Gertrude Erdele — the first woman to cross the Channel — beat the then-record by two hours; open-water champion swimmer Lynne Cox has held the record two separate times, when she was 15 and 16. But, mostly, men have been the fastest to cross the Channel. Indeed, the current record-holder for fastest swim across the English Channel is Australian Trent Grimsey, at 6 hours and 55 minutes; the fastest recorded time for a woman is Yvetta Hlaváčová, at 7 hours and 25 minutes.
Think again about powerlifting - it is VERY clearly male-dominated. If distance swimming were similarly dominated by female participants, it wouldn't be this hard to find the evidence.
Nonetheless, if the fastest women are faster in 2 of 3 swims studied, and the average woman is faster in all 3, I can see where people would say females dominate these events, based on the available data. It may not be the level of dominance men enjoy in power lifting, but neither can it be dismissed out of hand.
I think you got a sufficient answer to your original question.
Cunt wrote:I'm trying to think of clearly measurable traits here, by the way. Real, measurable and tangible things.
Stop fucking lying for once in your miserable life.
You are arguing against your own strawman, based on your simplistic expectation that people are either normal right wing folk, or are SJWs.
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