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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you really want to dive into fairness in swimming here is a great read:

http://www.swimtheory.com/home/003-qualifying-times[/quote]

That was the dumbest thing I ever spent 15 minutes of my life reading, and I hang out here. The first part acknowledges cut times are set to get a goal number of athletes. Part two acknowledges there are more girls then boys participating. Then pages of handwringing about why a smaller percentage of girls can participate. Uh, see your own part 1?[/quote]

ha- I had the same reaction.  At bottom, while dressed up with overally complicated statistical analysis, he is claiming 'unfairness' to girls b/c more girls participate in swimming than boys and thus it is harder as a girl to be in the top percentile of swimming as it is for a boy.  
There are more boys than girls that play rec basketball.  The rec league does an all-star game for which the top players in the league are selected to play.  30 boys play in the boys game and 30 girls play in the girls game.  Because there are many many more boys teams than girls team in order to play on the boys all-star team you have to be the top 1-2 players on your regular team.  Whereas the girls all star team takes the top 3 players on each time.  Does that mean the all star selection is inherently unfair to boys?  Of course not- it means the competition is stiffer.  The same thing with championship meets- the selection is not inherently unfair to girls, the competition is stiffer.[/quote]

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