Gender (In)Equality at a Small Scale

I see. So... would you apply that to educational or proficiency standards such as physical education? Those that simply determine how well you're doing, not checking if you're qualified enough for a job.

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Impossible to test directly. We can see animal behaviour and correlate it with what evolution tends to favour in animal behaviour, so as to double-check the validity of lines of evolutionary reasoning.

Though even aside from that, debate should be conducive to finding good reasoning provided that a wide enough variety of perspectives are compared and contrasted.

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I'm slightly confused - could you give me an example of how you see that working?

edited 28th Oct '11 2:10:59 PM by TheGirlWithPointyEars

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An educational standard (such as how fast you can run a mile) simply measures if you're performing at a competent level, according to your characteristics (age, gender, etc.). It doesn't measure you for competitiveness, but for well-being, so it's adjusted to your type.

A job standard is a requirement that factors into whether you'll be qualified for the job.

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Sure, if what you want to measure is overall health, that's what you should measure, and not expect a nine year old to perform like a twenty year old, or a six-foot-five male varsity basketball player to perform exactly like the five-foot-nothing female star cheerleader in the same grade who's cheering him on. How large the gap in expectations, and exactly what variables need to be taken into account, however, I leave to science.

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