Are women physically weaker than men on average?
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Resolves to whatever percentage confidence I have in the statement by time of closing.

Physically weaker defined as doing worse at exercises like: bench press, deadlift, squat, military press.

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According to this study, the average male is stronger than 99.9% of females. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1090513809000397?via%3Dihub

@ZZZZZZ "The mean effect size for these sex differences in total and upper body muscle mass and strength is about 3, which indicates less than 10% overlap between the male and female distributions, with 99.9% of females falling below the male mean."

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https://journals.lww.com/acsm-msse/Abstract/1981/03000/Strength_comparisons_in_untrained_men_and_trained.9.aspx

Comparison between trained men and trained women

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7930971/

Some data comparing trained women to untrained men, and trained men to trained women. In both cases the men are stronger for the mentioned bench/squat/deadlift movements.

Gender differences in strength

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00235103

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The women were approximately 52% and 66% as strong as the men in the upper and lower body respectively. The men were also stronger relative to lean body mass.

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Basically if you hold most variables the same/on average men are going to be stronger, to the point that even comparing women with some training history to untrained men, on average the men are often still stronger.

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