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onowahoo t1_j1ryqo4 wrote

It also helps with home field advantage. If you have beasts behind the plate you can keep a wider outfield. If you have a slow defensive team you can let the grass grow longer.

Different parks have different personalities, Yankee stadium used to have statues in the outfield until they moved the walls in... And then built a new stadium.

https://i.imgur.com/iAkeomk.jpg

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hamburger5003 t1_j1rtem8 wrote

It’s a well documented phenomenon over the last few decades with a few possible explanations. It’s hard to search for general studies because most studies seem to be either super specific or more focused on the male/female differences in math and science/reading and writing performance. But here are the major ones I keep seeing cited.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/4120992 I believe the first to prove there is a general gender gap in received grades vs aptitude. Not in here but I believe other studies suggest this trend is present everywhere except Nordic countries.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01425692.2022.2122942 Major study recently to suggest that this gap is systemic.

From personal experience, I can’t give much to secondary school because it was all boys, and my tertiary is a very small male-dominated field, but I distinctly remember my primary school was very sexist against boys in a number of ways, and I would not be surprised if this were also in grades.

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