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Eugine_Nier comments on Open Thread for February 18-24 2014 - Less Wrong
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1) How do you reliably measure potential? You could have leagues based on ability (similar to the way major/minor league baseball works today). But notice that no one cares about the minors.
2) You do realize the practical effect of this in most sports would be that all the levels above amateur would be massively male dominated?
3) In more violent sports you'd have to deal with the cultural taboo against male on female violence. (You could eliminate that taboo, but somehow I'd don't think the feminists would be happy with that outcome.)
4) The feminists are likely to cry bloody sexism over (2) and (3) above.
You can't reliably measure potential, though there's been some work on genes and sports.
Weight (and possibly height) classes would be a start. Not the gender issue, but I think there should be an anti-dehydration standard for sports with weight classes.