I'm sorry, but that's ridiculous. I don't know where to draw the line, but between athletics and science there are several orders of magnitude difference between the male-female gaps. Men are three times stronger than women, but not three times better on the SATs. There's a 300 to 1 ratio of men to women in the PGA, and there's no field of science with that kind of lopsidedness.
Muscle mass equals strength and speed. Brain size has no relation to test scores. Strength and speed are excellent predictors of success in athletics. Test scores are only weak predictors of success as a professional scientist.
If I give a speech where I suggest that biological differences might play a part in explaining some of the achievement gap in science, I get ripped a new orifice. If I gave a speech in which I suggest that maybe women aren't strong enough or fast enough to be NFL linebackers, no one would show up to listen to such a boring and obvious statement.
There might be some borderline cases in something like NASCAR where mostly you just sit in a comfy chair, but for athletics in general vs. science, it's blindingly obvious that one is a settled question and the other is not.
I think your concern born from your career experience is a very important thing, and worth all the attention it can get. If you let it bleed over into totally unrelated questions, you go from being an admirable crusader for justice to sounding like someone whose ideology has divorced you from reality.
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Muscle mass equals strength and speed. Brain size has no relation to test scores. Strength and speed are excellent predictors of success in athletics. Test scores are only weak predictors of success as a professional scientist.
If I give a speech where I suggest that biological differences might play a part in explaining some of the achievement gap in science, I get ripped a new orifice. If I gave a speech in which I suggest that maybe women aren't strong enough or fast enough to be NFL linebackers, no one would show up to listen to such a boring and obvious statement.
There might be some borderline cases in something like NASCAR where mostly you just sit in a comfy chair, but for athletics in general vs. science, it's blindingly obvious that one is a settled question and the other is not.
I think your concern born from your career experience is a very important thing, and worth all the attention it can get. If you let it bleed over into totally unrelated questions, you go from being an admirable crusader for justice to sounding like someone whose ideology has divorced you from reality.