[mattmanser]

It's not just a flaw, it invalidates every conclusion.

Who knows what the results would have been if both the men and women had been inexperienced, instead of skewing it to the men. How much working out had the experienced men done? How many tricks and techniques had they picked up to add to their abilities?

Also, what happens when both are experienced. Does it turn out that after a year the women build more strength on average to make up for present childhood norms emphasising femininity?

[gutnor]

In addition to that it fails to point out another conclusion: maybe the current training is not adequate for mix-gender team.

That's not difficult to imagine that some conditioning or some pattern may not be as efficient with women, especially since that training is based on decades of all-male combat experience with only theoretical adjustment for including women.