Re: Let Go Current of Male vs Female

On Tue, 8 Apr 2008 23:55:18 +0000 (UTC), don@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Don
Klipstein) wrote:

In article <nlfnv39n2o86pst5relvmtpc2oo5s7odac@xxxxxxx>, D from BC wrote:
While roaming the net, I tripped across this:
http://www.anesth.uiowa.edu/uploads/Electrical%20Safety.PPT#29
The 'Let Go Current for Men and Women'.

Ha! I can imagine the posters:
'Male and female volunteers wanted to participate in electrocution
experiment'

I'm not surprised the graph has
'average for 28 women'
'average for 134 men'


I remember from the early 1980's from my Drexel co-op job at the
Philadelphia Naval Shipyard reading some book or document saying how much
current has what effects on men and women.

I thought they were trying to support a notion of women being weaker
when they gave figures close to 1/3 lower for women than for men.

The graphs at the above site showing gender differences indicate women
suffer a given effect with about 2/3 to 70% as much current as men do.
Another graph at that site indicates relationship with body weight.

[snip]

Women, even skinny ones, have a subcutaneous fat layer that men don't
have. I would guess that's the primary cause of a threshold
difference.

...Jim Thompson
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