Posted on 04/23/2015 6:37:18 PM PDT by presidio9
According to a recent study completed at Grand Valley State University and published in PeerJ, data shows that even among highly competitive college athletes, men have a slight edge on their female counterparts when it comes to overall competitiveness. The study included 1,147 runners that competed in the 5,000 meter race, an event that is popular among both sexes. While the study spanned runners from all three college-division levels, the results showed that men were driven by their desire for status and recognition, while women were much more team-oriented.
The findings are in line with previous research completed by Stanford University, which notes that a mans performance receives a boost when the competition requires lining up next to a race rival. Meanwhile, women in the same situation are more likely to prioritize their teammates. While the research results remain pretty clear, there is still a lot of overlap in the findings meaning that there are many female athletes who are more competitive than their male counterparts.
The findings also have implications in the workplace. When responding to Medical Daily, researcher Robert Deaner points out that even when men and women hold the same selective jobs, men are more likely to prioritize competing for recognition and status, while women have more communal orientations.
“Unless it’s competing with other women for being better dressed. (Donning flame suit)”
I KNOW! I hate it when the beotch next farm over shows up in ‘this season’s’ Carhartt’s!
*SMIRK*
It all depends on what your competing for.
***What would we do without studies?***
I think I saw study on that!
What a useless piece of "news".
Water Is Wet!
Fire Is Hot!
Ice Is Cold!
Etc. Etc.
TIME MAG:
You better believe that we will keep making young men feel so bad about who they are, until the US is populated only by queers and lesbos.
Gee, I hope those ISIS dudes didn’t mean that about killing ALL homos....
I say that after listening to many negative comments from my sisters, female co-workers, and my wife concerning the attire of other females...always out of earshot of the target.
Really? No, really?
Of course men are more competitive.
Just remember, another name for second place is first loser.
Duh
See recorded history
Women hate direct confrontation
Umm. Just put an attractive, single doctor with a good salary in front of both groups and I’ll predict which gender gets more competitive. ;P
Have these scientists ever seen a Black Friday sale? THAT’S competitiveness, right there.
DANG!
lol
Shocking!!! Next they will discover men have gonads and women don’t.
This is an insane time. I’m ready to get out any time from now.
The sky is blue, grass is green, and water is wet. Where’s my money?
I know you're being sarcastic, but are you under the impression that women don't have gonads? That would be news to me.
Here’s the problem that the SJWs have with the ‘boys and girls are born the same and are shaped into unfair gender roles by society’...
If this is true, then how can anyone ever be ‘born gay’ or ‘born with a female brain in a man’s body’?
If we’re all a product of our environment, then nobody’s born gay or transexual.
So now the SJWs have to figure that dichotomy out.
Idiots.
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