Baby boys may show spatial supremacy - Male superiority on mental rotation tasks may develop...

Science News ^ | November 25th, 2008 | Bruce Bower

[yldstrk]

Yawn...................

[Smokin' Joe]

Spatial supremacy? I bet they don’t let their tool bag drift off...

[yldstrk]

Psychobabble.............

[Smokin' Joe]

Oops, wrong space. nevermind.

[OneWingedShark]

LOL

[glorgau]

Men hunt. They look for movement.

[hinckley buzzard]

Sex differences in spatial visualization among children and adults were well known 40 years ago when I was in graduate school. This research appears to have been aimed at showing that it is acquired sometime during socialization, to keep the feverish feminists mollified. Sorry, grrls.

(PS--Larry Summers was right.)

[ari-freedom]

Baby boys may show spatial supremacy

[Windflier]

Still, the new reports don’t confirm that baby boys perform mental rotation tasks better than baby girls do, comments psychologist Susan Levine of the University of Chicago...

Is there something in the water in Chicago?

I mean, Obama seems to be denying a clear reality in much the same way as this (ahem...) doctor.

[ReneeLynn]

Until they get a little older and can’t seem to discern the spatial make up of the toilet seat and hole. ;)

[ThomasThomas]

This needed to be posted before dinner. At first read I thought that they were saying that baby boys could spit better.

[neverdem]

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[hinckley buzzard]

Psychobabble.............

Nope. Real difference. Probably the cognitive basis for the predominance of males in engineering, for one thing. Simple every day experience for another: try giving directions to a woman by saying go east three miles and turn south on Route 21. They usually will stare at you blankly. You're better off telling them to go straight ahead to the corner with the BP station and then turn right at the light.

[keats5]

Well, that explains all those little dents and scratches on my front bumper.

[GOPGuide]

“(PS—Larry Summers was right.)”

Sexist, Nazi, Racist, Hitler!

[ari-freedom]

Anything you can do, I can do better. I can do anything better than you!
I can shoot a partridge with a single cartridge. I can get a sparrow with a bow and arrow.
Anything you can wear I can wear better. In what you wear I'd look better than you. In my coat? In your vest! In my shoes? In your hat! No, you can't!
Yes, I can Yes, I CAN!

[freespirited]

(PS--Larry Summers was right.)

I thought he was too tentative.

[Bobalu]

This sort of ability likely can be improved with the right sort of practice exercises...so not so big a deal.

Anyhoo, if this and a slightly increased ability to deal with math are the big differences I’d say that the girls wondrous ability to give birth more than balances the scales :-)

I have always had strong visual imagery skills. I can easily see 3d images of objects and rotate them about. While seeing such imaginary images the visual field can blank out for just a couple of seconds... I think many people do this, it is a bit worrying while driving and so I have to concentrate strongly on the road and not daydream for if I do eyesight blanks out...not good.

I have always been in awe of people with photographic memories, I have a very limited form of it that allows me to generally see the location on the printed page where a specific statement is located... I always skim through books looking quickly only at that spot on the left or right page till I find the info.

But I have an infuriating lack of talent for spelling things aloud, the only way I can do it is to see the word as text suspended in the air and then simply read the letters out one by one. A very roundabout way of doing something so simple.

[nomorelurker]

Experienced the same thing in reverse this summer. Was driving and headed to a certain place in a Texas Rio Grande Valley city. The woman giving directions in the van could not state the directions as such and such street and intersection but could only say turn by the Wal-Mart sign and go to the day care center and turn again. My wife seems to be an exception she can tell you go up 2 blocks turn right at the next intersection etc. She still can't understand however when I ask will that be North, South, East or West. Of course I'm a typical guy and will not ask for directions “I know it's here somewhere”.