Uh, I think you are misreading. The MALES were fudged to make them BETTER.
Let me try to clarify. Japanese fudging in the past was to reduce the number of qualifying females in the testing, right? Now that has been “fixed” and females did slightly better than the males in this most recent batch of testing. Right?
Just saying that the past fudging was defacto adjustment for the reality of lower female productivity, and no one wants to trigger the Krackens telling the truth.