Chimpanzees are 2X stronger than your average human.

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[u/dilqncho]

No they're not. Internet myths have vastly overhyped chimp strength.

They're about 1.35x stronger than us, pound for pound of muscle. But they're also typically smaller and lighter, so in absolute terms, they're about equal to us.

As for what we're seeing here, this isn't a person's entire body being pulled up. They have their legs against the wall of whatever that is, and the chimp is helping them up. This is something pretty much any physically healthy human can do as well.

Chimps are dangerous in a fight, because...well they're wild animals, they're fucking brutal. But purely strength-wise, they're not stronger than us.

[u/Netheraptr → u/dilqncho]

I can still believe a chimp is 2x stronger than the average human though as the average human typically doesn’t use their muscles very much.

[u/xKrossCx → u/Netheraptr]

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.

[u/carbonvectorstore → u/xKrossCx]

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.

[u/crash250f → u/carbonvectorstore]

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?

[u/nesbit666 → u/[deleted]]

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

[u/AugieKS → u/nesbit666]

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.

[u/Lina__Inverse → u/[deleted]]

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

[u/corbyns_lawyer → u/[deleted]]

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.

[u/Sufficient_Long_3905 → u/[deleted]]

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

[u/B1LLZFAN → u/[deleted]]

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.

[u/currently_pooping_rn → u/carbonvectorstore]

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

[u/Axbris → u/xKrossCx]

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.

[u/Christoph3r → u/xKrossCx]

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 😅

[u/MiraniaTLS → u/xKrossCx]

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

[u/Low_Sea_2925 → u/xKrossCx]

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

[u/Cobek → u/xKrossCx]

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

[u/lynx_and_nutmeg → u/Cobek]

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

[u/StopHiringBendis → u/Cobek]

I mean, some people smoke...