tl;dr Male High School Athletes beat Female Olympians extremely convincingly in most events (with a small number of exceptions, namely 5000 Meters and Triple Jump)
This infographic/exploratory data analysis is one of the best I've encountered at displaying data on an interesting question and laying it out for the reader to see and understand.
However, a caveat: the samples from both groups have to be similar sizes (ideally equal sizes). To demonstrate why this is important, imagine an extreme case where you compared the top 10 Female Olympians from a data set of 100 Female Olympians to the top 10 Male High School Athletes from a data set of 10,000 Male High School Athletes. The greater number of observations in the latter group gives more chances for extreme outliers, which will be selected for comparison when choosing the top n.
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However, a caveat: the samples from both groups have to be similar sizes (ideally equal sizes). To demonstrate why this is important, imagine an extreme case where you compared the top 10 Female Olympians from a data set of 100 Female Olympians to the top 10 Male High School Athletes from a data set of 10,000 Male High School Athletes. The greater number of observations in the latter group gives more chances for extreme outliers, which will be selected for comparison when choosing the top n.