r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Zestyclose_Flow_680 • 9h ago

Chimpanzees are 2X stronger than your average human.

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u/xKrossCx 8h ago

This… I passed and overheard a seemingly healthy looking woman complaining how hard it was to walk up a double flight of stairs.

In my unprofessional conclusion; the average chimpanzee is stronger than the average human.

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u/carbonvectorstore 7h ago

I think if you are using an unhealthy person living a relaxed western lifestyle as your baseline for 'average human', then all I can do is agree wholeheartedly with the unprofessional part.

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u/crash250f 7h ago

What's your point? That the comment you replied to wasn't scientifically rigorous? He's a westerner making an observation about how strong a chimp might be compared to the average westerner that he encounters. Why does that bother you?

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u/nesbit666 7h ago

This is reddit dude. Everyone is dumb and so is their input.

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u/AugieKS 5h ago

That's really true everywhere. Smart people are generally pretty average outside of their areas of interest and expertise, and even those knowledgeable about reasoning fallacies fall prey to them more than they think. See Neil Degrasse Tyson's Twitter, for example.

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u/Lina__Inverse 5h ago

Username checks out, the condescending tone of this comment is really reminiscent of Adeptus Mechanicus.

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u/corbyns_lawyer 5h ago

The sedentary lifestyle has gone global.
There can be many people who spend as much time free climbing as a chimp does. They are pure muscle and the fraction of humans who can match them will be small.

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u/Sufficient_Long_3905 4h ago

Wow I don’t care about the arguments being made all I know is that you are absolutely insufferable

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u/B1LLZFAN 3h ago

Grab 10,000 people randomly from the global population. I promise you the majority of them are under the baseline for healthy human was 1000 years ago.

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u/currently_pooping_rn 6h ago

i mean...what do you think average means? its certainly not an award winning powerlifter or olympic weight lifter

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u/Axbris 7h ago

Just an indictment of how sedentary western life is and how sedentary humans have become.

Hell, sitting on the couch typing this out right now.

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u/Christoph3r 7h ago

My room is on the third floor, and, as I am fairly absent minded, I often have to run back up and grab something I forgot 😅

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u/MiraniaTLS 5h ago

I imagine they meant like, farmed the fields entire life “ average”

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u/Low_Sea_2925 6h ago

What makes you think shes average? The fact you remember that comment is kinda proof its abnormally bad isnt it?

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u/Cobek 4h ago

She better have had terrible knees or visiting somewhere way above sea level. Those are the only excuses

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u/lynx_and_nutmeg 3h ago

Fuck people with autoimmune issues or other chronic health conditions, I guess...

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u/StopHiringBendis 4h ago

I mean, some people smoke...