http://blog.fawny.org/2006/02/13/chix/ blog.fawny.org Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:45:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9-rare hourly 1 http://blog.fawny.org/2006/02/13/chix/comment-page-1/#comment-196 Chix with stix redux redux – Le «blog personnel» de Joe Clark Sat, 18 Mar 2006 18:44:38 +0000 http://blog.fawny.org/2006/02/13/%e2%80%98chix-with-stix%e2%80%99-redux/#comment-196 [...] Earlier, my policy of retaining nearly every single computer file indefinitely paid off when I was able to do a comparison between 1999-era wymmynx hockey players and NHL players, and another comparision between male and female 2006 winter Olympics hockey players. In this, my first foray into freakonomics, I used body-mass index to estimate that a small number of female players are of a size similar to some NHL players, meaning that size itself is not a reason to categorically exclude women from playing in the NHL. [...] [...] Earlier, my policy of retaining nearly every single computer file indefinitely paid off when I was able to do a comparison between 1999-era wymmynx hockey players and NHL players, and another comparision between male and female 2006 winter Olympics hockey players. In this, my first foray into freakonomics, I used body-mass index to estimate that a small number of female players are of a size similar to some NHL players, meaning that size itself is not a reason to categorically exclude women from playing in the NHL. [...]

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