Back in the day real men never...NEVER stopped and ask for directions!
Um, I don’t think so.....
oh it is true that they do...only problem is they don’t know where they are going and won’t ask for directions
If it was just chance she would occasionally turn toward the car but she never does.
I am not sure if this is a good sense of direction or bad one.
This is a corollary to the fact that males are better with spatial concepts.
As a woman I cannot say I have really observed this with directions for sure.
I do not have any problems. Rarely any troubles with my actual SENSE of direction. But then, I am an unusual woman, so maybe not a good data point.
As a woman, I do not disagree with this finding. But because of this, women are far more likely to get where we want to go in much speedier, less gasoline intensive, fashion, because we can admit right away that we are lost and are not afraid to ask for directions.
A drop of testosterone under the tongue? Yikes!
I am very much a girl when it comes to directions, although I am a lot better than I used to be. The husband is a human GPS, OTOH, and continues to be stymied by my lack of a sense of direction. I also stink at estimating proportions.
I could have told them that for half the price of their “study”.
Women are also more brutal in love and revenge than men, and inside every real man is a child that just wants to play. (Stolen from Nietzsche) :)
Not in our family. Wife is left/right challenged, I am n/s/e/w challenged. Our trips at times in the past were unplanned scenic, now no so much thanks to Garmin.
Men are superior at spatial relations (and when I say this audibly with a woman present, I have to emphasize that I said “spatial” and not “special”). Meaning, if you told a man and a woman to borh drive forward 100 feet, a man would get it right more often than a woman will.
The old joke is that the reason woman can’t judge length and distance is because men were always telling them that their smaller penises were actually 7-9 inches.
Well, men are born with pointers....everyone knows that!!!
Well...they use too anyway...
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.
My mom and wife’s sense of direction ain’t much better than a deaf blindworm.
Mine without GPS is only about 15% better.
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.
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.
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. : )
So the U.S. Gobment spent 100K or more on this???
Not in my family.My husband is always getting lost and I can get around quite well...the sun helps out, though.