men more often […] tolerate higher risk in competitive contexts.
This was de-emphasized in the study, as the study didn’t look into psychological factors at all - but it squares with my understanding.
A typical woman, eg, may have her splits and race to her splits, resulting in a predictable result.
A typical man, otoh, may have his splits but then -consciously or subconsciously - he will gamble that the excitement of race day will give him the boost he needs to achieve an excellent result. So he’s more likely to blow up in the second half. It would be interesting to know how often the gamble pays off, too
The same happens in business too. Women tend to make more reasonable and actionable goals while a lot of men (not all, but a decent chunk) set unrealistic goals.
A woman who owns a bakery might set a goal of increasing customer’s average basket by 5-10% within a year, while a man would want to double output within 5 or something…
I witnessed this myself at my last job. The drone department director I worked with sometimes wanted to increase the number of pilots under him by a factor of 20X in a year and increase billable hours by 50% for each of them… Truly looney toones shit. We added one person and billable hours got spread among them instead due to a slump with clients…
Turns out clients can just, yaknow buy their own fucking drone and license their own employee
Who built a wall there??
Top Men.
The German Democratic Republic.
Because men don’t spend every fourth week going through physical and mental chaos as a “this is life now” deal.
See how stoic and composed a woman is when they have the flu, for comparison. Men have quite the psychological disadvantage when their bodies feel “uncomfy”.
You do know that “hitting the wall” is a physiological thing and not a mental thing right? Like you’ve physically depleted glycogen storage in your muscles causing the severe fatigue we reference as “hitting the wall”. Mental fortitude will not make the muscles work well again when that happens, no matter how much you have.
Yeah, if anything this comment would be inverted. Women would have the fortitude to push through any mental struggle and would hit the wall more often.
wtf is this even supposed to mean
Women are more used to feeling uncomfortable due to having periods, is what I think they were trying to say.
See how stoic and composed a woman is when they have the flu, for comparison.
lol
