[ExI] competition markshumanship

[SR Ballard]

Or women could be worse in most sports because they aren’t trained in sports from a young age. There used to be a lot more women in computing, then it became stereotypically male. Who knows:

3 elite female chess players: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/László_Polgár

Computer assisted tutoring leads to younger chess champs: https://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/06/nyregion/queen-captured-by-mouse-more-chess-players-use-computers-for-edge.html

Mother consistently underestimate the crawling abilities of 11 month old girls and overestimate it for boys of the same age: 
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.652.8492&rep=rep1&type=pdf

Women in computing: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_computing (Though I find it to be a bit biased)

SR Ballard


> On Jun 29, 2020, at 12:33 PM, spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> Keith, regarding women's marksmanship, in 2016 the first Olympic gold was awarded to Ginny Thrasher, a West Virginian and distant cousin to me.  When you commented about marksmanship being largely a talent rather than a skill honed over years of practice, I was reminded that Ginny had only taken up the sport about a year before.
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> Your comment about marksmanship being as much an innate talent as an acquired skill has the ring of truth.  Supporting detail available.
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> Think about this: every sport has men's and women's divisions, even stuff you would not think would need them, such as chess.  But top level chess is dominated by men.  Currently there are no women in the among the highest ranking players.  I don't know why: perhaps evolutionary psychology could offer insight.
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> If one speculates that every sport is dominated by men, there is one puzzling exception: marksmanship.  I know the debate drones on to this day, but I also know that marksmanship competitions have been mixed gender in the past, including at the Olympics.  If there is a single sport that men have the lowest inherent advantage, it would be that one. 
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> I have some fun details on that last comment if you want them.
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> I speculate that in the foreseeable, women will dominate the sport in the USA, because of Title IX.  Reasoning: the insurance costs of collegiate sports is going up.  Title IX requires colleges to offer scholarships to men and women, regardless of the fact that more spectators pay more money to see men's sports.  If insurance becomes the dominant cost, it emphasizes the economic viability of the lower risk sports.  Marksmanship is the second-safest collegiate sport, behind chess.  Those are two sports where you can't hurt yourself.  So... the insurance is cheap.  It doesn't cost much to do either sport, so both are attractive as ways to spend Title IX dollars.  This would bring more women into competitive shooting, allowing us to discover inherent talent in the sport, eventually resulting in women dominating even the mixed-gender competitions.
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> Fun detail available on request for that too.
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> spike
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