• @tatterdemalion
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    10 days ago

    The fastest marathon time for men is 2 hours 1 minute and for women it is 2 hours 14 minutes.

    It’s an unacceptable leap in logic to infer (from that statement) anything about populations of men and women. You’ve picked only a single sample from each population and chosen that highly biased representative.

    • @[email protected]
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      010 days ago

      That set is inclusive of every official marathon ever ran, so no it is not a single sample. We see consistently that the women’s record always is slower than the men’s record.

      • @tatterdemalion
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        310 days ago

        Fair, but it’s also limited to the very top of the bell curve at any point in time.