Krypton Factor - Female advantage fair?

[Will]

Originally Posted by Desmo

I think people are kind of missing what I'm saying. I KNOW women aren't as physically capable. I don't expect them to be so we don't need to keep going over how they're not as strong as the men (not picking at your post Will, plenty have said it).

I'm just questioning whether it should be taken in to consideration on an all-round skills show

I guess more disagree with me than I thought would though in all honesty

No no, I completely see your point, but the point I was trying to make albeit badly was that whilst 2 brains and logic can be nearly the same, physical activity is never going to be that closely matched. Men will have an advantage by default. Sure women may use lateral thinking side of their brains better etc... but not to such an advantage as a man has over a woman physically.

[Justsomebloke]

I have seen a few Female Thai fighters that can match men physically in every way although peeing standing up is messy.
I get where you are coming from though mate I was just taking the P earlier. Like MB says though a Handicap system is the only fair way but you would have to include Both sexes & spread the lot.

[Matblack]

Originally Posted by Justsomebloke

I have seen a few Female Thai fighters that can match men physically in every way although peeing standing up is messy.
I get where you are coming from though mate I was just taking the P earlier. Like MB says though a Handicap system is the only fair way but you would have to include Both sexes & spread the lot.

If you can combine your 'spreading the lot' with my 'rythmmic gymnastics' idea I think we have a viable porn show.

MB

[Justsomebloke]

I'm in

[Admiral Huddy]

The contest in the eyes of the KF is to determine who is the fittest from the contestants. Anyone who is half fit would find the course a breeze. However, the course is mixed in that one person may find one obsticle easy yet hard for another of similar fitness. So there wouldn't be too much between two fit people, reagrdless of their gender.

[_dogma_]

I don't watch the show so not quite sure how it works but I know if I wanted to do something like that I wouldn't expect or want a head start. I'd rather lose gracefully than have a head start and still lose.

On a side note, when I was younger and into sports I beat everyone in my class in an assault course by a fair amount and that was with no head start!

[Desmo]

Is now the best time to say the woman still came last by over a minute?

[Pumpkinstew]

Originally Posted by Desmo

Not. It just means that you'd be **** at the sport of running 100m with a low ceiling. Just in the same way that with me being a short arse, I'd be crap at the high jump. Or maybe I should be allowed a box to jump off of seeing as I'm disadvantaged?

If high jump was an event in the Krypton Factor then, yeah, I think you'd have a case for being alowed to use a box to make up for your physical handicap.
The point, which you either ignored or missed, was the event apparatus has a bias in it which is being alleviated by the head start

I do see your point about the 5 second head start opening up a can of worms regarding levelling the playing field. You could argue that left handers have a slight advantage/disadvantage in the spatial acuity or flight simulator tests (if they still use the old format), but as MB pointed out this is not as clear cut scientifically as the male physical advantage in the assault course.

[Admiral Huddy]

Originally Posted by Desmo

Is now the best time to say the woman still came last by over a minute?

Of course but please post pics of your gonads in the morning

[_dogma_]

Originally Posted by Desmo

Is now the best time to say the woman still came last by over a minute?

See my post above yours. That's my point exactly!