• thebestaquaman@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Theres a very simple answer to that: The things you are mentioning (height, weight, arm-span, testosterone levels) are not normally distributed in the human population, but follow a binormal distribution. It makes sense to let people from one of the two parts of the distribution compete within their own bell curve. It makes far less sense to set a cutoff at the tail of the curve and disallow people from the tail from competing.

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      3 months ago

      Its simple? Okay. Tell me the exact “allowed” physical parameters for any sport.

      Since it’s simple, these should be well defined and easy to source.