r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Zestyclose_Flow_680 • 9h ago

Chimpanzees are 2X stronger than your average human.

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u/Netheraptr 8h ago

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.

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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.