![](https://programming.dev/pictrs/image/eb6019e6-5997-4e43-bb1c-995ce032f3af.jpeg)
![](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/913b482d-9012-449f-bc87-b1f4463e7154.jpeg)
The fastest marathon time for men is 2 hours 1 minute and for women it is 2 hours 14 minutes.
It’s an unacceptable leap in logic to infer (from that statement) anything about populations of men and women. You’ve picked only a single sample from each population and chosen that highly biased representative.
Fair, but it’s also limited to the very top of the bell curve at any point in time.