Mick Hartley

Exposed in court, for once. You may be familiar with this wild methodological distortion that TRAs build into their 'sport science' studies. If not, prepare for🤯

Sex differences between males and females generate skeletal differences – height, and hand size, for example.… https://t.co/GPKGjdxgxC

— Jon Pike (@runthinkwrite) April 10, 2025

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Sex differences between males and females generate skeletal differences – height, and hand size, for example. Likewise for muscle strength. But in their measurement of grip strength the TRA charlatans *control these out*.

Effectively they say – 'Well, yes, males have greater grip strength, but that's not because they are male, that's because they have bigger hands. If we control for bigger hands, then the sex differences disappear.' So they do control (or 'normalise').

Of course, the fact that males have bigger hands is just a fact. It arises from their/our maleness. So this effectively says – 'If you discount sex differences, then there are no sex differences.'

It is sometimes difficult to fully grasp how intellectually dishonest this stuff is. It's good to see it aired in court, and not just here.