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> > Well, let's see.  Why do I do this? :)  LOL

> > In my thread about gender differences in poker, the major real
> > difference I saw was that the male respondents (I don't think any
> > women read RGP) for the most part, basically resorted to crude
> > insults, rather than address the issue.

> > But one of the shallowest responses I got was my reference to the COPS
> > TV show, wherein I stated that I have seen few (if any) instances of
> > women cops performing their duties to the same standards as the male
> > cops.

> > Every excuse can be made, but it becomes painfully evident that female
> > cops cannot subdue male perpretrators without help from a MALE (in at
> > least one case, from a male civilian bystander).

> This has little to do with poker.  I don't consider it shallow to say that
> both male and female cops are trained not to pursue a suspect alone, but
> that males are more likely than females to disregard that training.  It goes
> along with the poker-related observation that males are more likely than
> females to go off on a particular opponent (and also that males seem less
> likely to go off on a female opponent).

> Yeah, women on average run slower than men, jump less well and come off
> badly in grappling.  None of these have anything to do with poker.  They
> aren't central to police work either, although they do have SOMETHING to do
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