09-11-2015, 12:53 AM
(09-10-2015, 06:17 PM)Beaker Wrote: The Marines conducted a study in which 400 Marines were trained together...100 of them women. They were divided into mixed gender teams, and all male teams. Every aspect of their deployment was studied and quantified. They found the all male teams performed significantly better in combat situations. With a mandate for all branches of the military to allow women in combat coming up, should we be forced by law to have mixed gender squads in the military?
Link:
http://qz.com/499618/the-us-marines-tested-all-male-squads-against-mixed-gender-ones-and-the-men-came-out-ahead/?utm_source=YPL&ref=yfp
There shouldn't be any integration of women into historically combat jobs unless they can perform the same job to the same standard without any accommodations.
This study has a fatal flaw . . .
Quote:The tests come with at least one important caveat: As the Marine Corps Times notes, many of of the male study participants had previously served in combat units, whereas female participants, by necessity, came directly from infantry schools or from noncombat jobs.
You have a bunch of females with no experience being tested against experienced infantrymen. I can tell you the experienced infantrymen will out perform the females. If you conducted the same experiment with inexperienced, non-infantry males you would get the same results. The need to set up a control group with inexperienced, non-infantry males mixed with the experienced infantrymen and compare the results of each of those groups. Then the results need to be reproducible to be valid.
