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Men have an advantage in strength that goes beyond being more muscular.
We know this because they tend to be stronger even when members of both sexes are matched for muscle mass.
I separated off these results because of the difference in scale. The finding holds up with these measures too.
On a similar note, elite female athletes are generally not as strong as average, non-athlete men.
1. The first plots were generated by simulating distributions for the means and SDs. Normality is probably not so perfectly observed in the real raw data, so keep that in mind.
2. The elite female athletes are in, e.g., judo and handball, not competitive lifting per se.

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