Men have better sense of direction than women, study suggests

Science Daily ^ | December 7, 2015

[sparklite2]

Using fMRI, the researchers saw that men in the study took several shortcuts, oriented themselves more using cardinal directions and used a different part of the brain than the women in the study.

But when women got a drop of testosterone under their tongue, several of them were able to orient themselves better in the four cardinal directions.

[Bigg Red]

It’s in our nature to fix stuff. If we are lost, that is just another form of broke. Time to fix what is broke.

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Well said!

My husband is an excellent problem solver. The best.

[Bigg Red]

Same here.

[Secret Agent Man]

As a lefthander i have the best of both worlds. I dont ask for directions but pull out my map or gps when i need it.

[mountn man]

Not trying to blame women at all.

What you described is very true.

But instead of pointing figers at men or women and saying he/she is wrong...maybe BOTH sides need to understand how EACH side is wired.

What you said about men IS true and men need to understand where a woman is coming from (and going to), BUT...they also need to look inside and see how they themselves are wired.

And visa versa. It applies to women to.

It does nether sex any good, simply to try to understand how the opposite, thinks, acts and feels, without also understanding their own wiring, so that they can better understand the differences.

And THAT is the failure of the PC/Gender neutral crowd.

[a fool in paradise]

REM’s Stand sounds like a ripoff of the riff from Electic Flag’s tune from the LSD film the trip:
Practice Music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YoiX_EsZw0

I’ve thought so since the 1990s.

[Chickensoup]

My GPS regularly sends me in the wrong direction or in a outrageously long way. I keep full maps in the car and consider it a crucial step in prepping.

[mountn man]

Its terrible when you have an address AND GPS coordinates. You put them both in and it takes you 2 places 1-1/2 hours apart.

(Don't ask me how)

[QT3.14]

This illustrates the point:

[Roman_War_Criminal]

My mom and wife’s sense of direction ain’t much better than a deaf blindworm.

Mine without GPS is only about 15% better.

[Mollypitcher1]

I was in Belgium and I had three or four false directions on exits, but I avoided a problem because I read the signs as well and had studied a map the night before. Then when I got into Luxembourg, it was pretty easy and when I got into France I just turned the darned thing off. I do have a very good sense of direction because my dad began to take me hunting when I was very young and taught me to be aware of my surroundings. I just seem to have a direction finder in my head and know what direction to go by instinct. Can’t really explain it, but think the hunting may have been the cause. Perhaps it is a developed sense....use it or lose it kind of thing.

[Mollypitcher1]

LOL

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

Agree 100% LOL. It is funny to talk about the differences, though.

[IYAS9YAS]

But why is it when they drive and they get lost, they refuse to stop for directions? A woman drags out the map.

Cuz, if'n we wuz really lost, pullin' out that map won't tell us where we are... ;^p

[Georgia Girl 2]

I can unequivocally state that men will not stop to ask for directions. Mr. GG2 will not even flag down a clerk in a store for information. Once in awhile I get sick of the waiting and ask somebody and voila’ we get to the right place. :-)

[Twinkie]

Fang has always been good at finding his way when we’re
out driving. Me? Not as much; but I can sort of read a
map.

[BlueLancer]

"Once in awhile I get sick of the waiting and ask somebody and voila’ we get to the right place. :-)"

Well, jeez, anybody can get to the right place if you know where you're going. The challenge is getting there without a clue!

[Georgia Girl 2]

LOL!

[Twinkie]

Yup. When we first got our GPS; the thing carried us down
an old road that turned into a muddy cow path where we
could not turn around - so we had to go forward hoping
we would not get stuck. At one point, we were looking down
into a ravine on our right. I don’t know how we got out of
there. We ended up finding the place. We’d been there before
several years ago; only this time it wasn’t a business. I
had to go in and use the bathroom; then I don’t know what
we did.

[stayathomemom]

My husband and I both have a fine sense of direction, but when it comes to map reading, which I love, he is LOST! It has been comical at times. He also does not care for driving, which I don’t mind, so I often find myself to be the driver and the navigator.

[MD Expat in PA]

I hate to admit it but I (a woman) have a terrible sense of direction and always have and even more sadly, I have to admit that I sometimes mix up right from left (direction wise of course, not politically). I am also bad at estimating distance. Ask me how many feet or yards or miles away a place is from a certain point, I have no idea.

However I love reading maps, always have even as a young child. When I was a kid my dad had a subscription to National Geographic and one of my favorite things about the magazine, was the big fold out maps. I would spend hours looking at them and following the roads, rail lines and rivers, studying the topography, etc. My dad was a carpenter and I also loved reading blue prints and got very good at reading them.

I also had a Moon map that came in the National Geographic magazine back during the Apollo missions when I was about 7 years old, I used to launch my toy Apollo rocket from my world map on one side of the living room to my Moon map on the opposite side, complete with rocket separation and the separation of the Lunar Lander from the Command Module and back to splash down it the Pacific with my toy battle ships that IIRC came from boxes of Captain Crunch cereal. My dad got the biggest kick watching me do this. LOL!

And I was very good at geography in school, back when schools actualy taught geography. I was also very good at geometry.

And even today I can spend hours perusing Google maps and Google Earth, just because.

But put me in a car and ask me to follow directions to someplace unfamiliar to me, even using a map and or even using GPS, and I can almost guarantee I will make at least one wrong turn.

Just the other day this happened. I was driving to the office of our divisional HQ, just about 8 miles away from my office, but I'd never been there before (and somewhat in my defense, I haven't lived that long in PA, having grown up in Maryland so I'm still unfamiliar with a lot of roads and areas around here). I put the address in my phone's GPS but at one point going toward Lancaster City the GPS clearly told me to stay in the left hand lane and make a left turn but I ended up moving over to the right hand lane and as a result missed my turn and had to turn around and missed the turn a second time as I was now in the left hand lane when I should have been in the right. I actually thought at one point that the lady, the voice on my GPS was yelling at me. : )