| RE: Are mens and womens scores comparable?
Just a thought - what about the Olympics?
Both men and women shoot 70m, so scores "should" be directly comparable, and if you scanned the scores from Athens, you'd probably find that for equal rankings within gender, the scores are roughly equal across genders (i.e., the top 10 women are pretty much equal to the top 10 men).
However, the women are shooting these scores with lighter draw weights (around 10-12 # lighter?), so you could argue that the women's round in this case is a bit more difficult (arrows having a lower initial velocity, subject to more cross-wind effects) - but then again they probably use different arrows to compensate for this...... |