US Army halts gender neutral fitness test as women struggle
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The difficulty with designing this test is many. The test cannot reduce combat readiness of your forces so the minimum requirements do need to actually reflect the minimum requirements of being combat ready. Another pain point is that women on average are quite a bit weaker than men, and that gap is widened when everyone is participating in physical fitness activities. Both of these factors probably compound into making the ACFT extremely difficult to pass for the average female service member.
For the old APFT there was an army-wide standard of a minimum passing score of 180 (max 300) in 3 events, with a required minimum 60 point score in each event. The points are weighted by age and gender. Some jobs in the Army had much higher requirements than the baseline to reflect the increased physicality of the job.
If the new ACFT wants to aim for gender neutral baseline score, it'll probably have to be pretty low and the pass rate for men will probably be extremely high. Perhaps they just need to apply different requirements for different jobs to ensure that combat readiness isn't sacrificed.
I read on Quora, that the real problem with men and women fighting together, that if both a man and the woman is caught as hostage, a man can't see a woman from his team suffering, and gives up the secrets much easier.
> Research showed that the Army Combat Fitness Test (ACFT), which is the same for male and female soldiers, was leading to lower results for women with a knock-on effect for promotions.
> An early Pentagon study showed women were failing the ACFT at a rate of 65 per cent, compared with 10 per cent for men. Congress has halted implementation of the new test and the army has begun an independent review into whether it is fair. It has been suggested that the standard test could be evaluated differently for men and women.
Biology is a fact and for some jobs — like combat in the army — that biological difference matters and will manifest in any unbiased test.
I’m concerned by our inability to talk about facts.
Any Chinese person or Sinophile who can give some more depth to what this means?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EZzv5O6UYAA4cb6.jpg
(I'm not Chinese nor do i speak it)
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamo-gauchisme
basically they accuse some left people to have been (too) tolerant with muslim people in the name of multiculturalism, leading to being laxist toward ideologies and cultural practices (such as islamic preachers in some mosques) that lead to / encourage to terrorism (a lot of the terror attacks we had came from people visiting the same mosques..).
it's not completely unfounded if you know some french left-wing poiticians
It is used to describe anything where efforts are proven or likely to be proven futile, not just in relation to politics.
Here is an example, if my parents saw me trying to boil a pot of water with a candle, they would refer to that action as baizuo.
This is my experience as a Taiwanese so it may be different in China.
It's pretty interesting that a foreign culture would coin a term for something like that, though. I wonder if this is term that's mainly used by international students.
Maybe number of air squats in 2 min?
Just a dumb RPG comment but it seems to be weighted toward STR more than DEX or END. Even a 2-mile run seems suspiciously meh compared to a max deadlift. Is this normal for Army fitness? Hopefully it wasn't a knee-jerk designed by frightened men...
Beyond that, if they're designing it around requirements for combat roles, of which the physicality of it isn't just a matter of kudos points but of survival, it will almost definitely result in a test that disqualifies most women.
Keep in mind no body form checks you...