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Originally Posted by August
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Originally Posted by Letum
If anything women should raise standards.
Allowing women will raise applications and give the selection people a wider choice to
cream off the best.
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I don't follow your reasoning Letum.
What happens in real life is around 20% of male and 80% of female applicants are not physically able to handle the physical rigors of Infantry combat training (and therefore the RL combat situations the training is designed to test suitability for). This disparity leads to accusations of sexism, which forces the Army to lower the training standards so that more women can pass. The overall effect is a less able infantry force with higher casualty rates. |
I follow what you are saying and agree that it is essential that this is prevented.
I shall try to explain my point with a example:
Say the army needed 100 soldiers to fight.
In scenario A only men are allowed to fight.
200 men volunteer and that means that the top 50% are selected. (50% of 200 is
100)
In scenario B both sexes are allowed to fight.
200 men volunteer and 50 women volunteer. This means that the top 40% are
selected. (40% of 250 is 100)
Assuming that at least 1 woman makes the grade in scenario B, the standard of the
100 soldiers will be higher than that resulting from scenario A because a higher
percentile (60%-100% as opposed to 50%-100%) has been creamed off.
The numbers used here are for example only.