“While the conclusions make it look like having women in combat isn’t a good idea, one important caveat of the tests is that many of of the male study participants had previously served in combat units, whereas female participants, by necessity, came directly from infantry schools or from noncombat jobs.”
Scientifically, another duplicate test should be run. Both all male and gender mixed teams should both come only from infantry schools and noncombat jobs. That will demonstrate how much, or if, the difference is gender mixed teams or teams with no combat experience verses teams with combat experience.
Surely our Marine Corps know that. I hope that will be one of the comparisons they do. Thanks for bringing it up.
That’s what I thought Wuli. They destroyed their credibility by using combat troops against non-combat females. I don’t believe that women can match men in physical activity, but at least do a credible test to prove it or no one will believe your results.
Sometimes, when one knows a given outcome is virtually certain to be unfavorable to one’s preconceived notions, poisoning the well by creating the appearance of a stacked deck can salvage those preconceived notions to live and fight another day.
Maybe they didn't want to know that...