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<p>In your example of baseball-throwing, it depends. Most trained boys will throw harder than most trained girls once puberty starts because most pubescent/post-pubescent boys are physically stronger than most pubescent/post-pubescent girls. This doesn’t really apply before puberty. Untrained boys and girls are all over the map in terms of how they throw a baseball…it will depend on natural ability, strength, and coordination, amount of time they’ve spent throwing, whether they have older siblings who play ball with them, whether they watch baseball on TV and notice how the players throw, etc.</p>
<p>Certainly, when I was a kid, I was always irritated when boys made fun of other boys with the putdown of “You throw like a girl.” After all, “I’m a girl, and I don’t throw a ball that way.”</p>
<p>My point being, people are individuals, and not automatons. And there tend to be huge overlaps between groups in distributions of a given characteristic. It is rarely as simple as blanket statements.</p>
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<p>What a nice thought. Too bad that:</p>
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<li>There’s no objective, unflawed way to measure merit in the context of college admissions.</li>
<li>This is completely ignoring impact of the realities of social psych (stereotype activation & stereotype threat, unconscious bias, etc).</li>
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