How a study of sex similarities got spun into a story of sex differences

[Jardine]

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But as a society I think we tend to look at the extremes - men’s world record sprints are quite a bit faster than women’s - rather than the normal case. The fact that the gold medal women’s sprinter is faster than all but a tiny handful of men doesn’t seem to enter into people’s heads.

At the 2012 Olympics, the women’s gold medalist for the 100m sprint had a time of 10.75 seconds. 51 males beat that time. In the world’s population, sure, that’s a tiny handful, but it’s still quite a gap at the high end.