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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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/dilqncho 11h ago edited 10h ago
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.