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Old 02-20-2007, 09:58 PM
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Re: [RPG]: Fantasy Imperium, reviewed by Lev Lafayette (3/1)

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Originally Posted by yoacusna View Post
Gymnastics is by way of being a special case. In terms of flexibility women do indeed outperform men. By most other measures of agility, including throwing accuracy, men outperform women.
Throwing accuracy is largely a function of strength as well as dexterity

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But as you say, it all depends on what you think you mean by "agility". I restate my case that including mechanical differences is in general a bad idea.
Well in this case I am differentiating between agility (flexibility etc) and dexterity (manual manipulation). In the game in question the two are conflated.
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