The nation is heading toward a Trump Presidency, and everyone has a a flawless sense of direction in this context.
Posted on 12/07/2015 3:08:55 PM PST by 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.
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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.
You’re funny! LOL.
Now mel, you know that men do not “get lost.”
We explore alternate routes.
Use to live somewhere where there main roads all went NW to SE and it was always cloudy. I hated it.
My wife has the same left-right problem. She just freezes up. If, eventually, she does make a decision, it is the wrong one about 95% of the time.
Thus, she is pretty much useless in the front seat of a canoe in anything approaching whitewater. Or, for that matter, in the driver's seat of a car -- taking directions from a passenger/navigator.
Moreover, unlike your friend, she has zero sense of direction. Can't find N even if the sun or moon is up.
arnolds voice would be funny...for a few minutes.
Imagine him saying RECALCULATING.
Miami.....Avenues are North-South, Streets run East-West. Very easy.
You guys are hilarious! I love freeper/male humor!
The nation is heading toward a Trump Presidency, and everyone has a a flawless sense of direction in this context.
“I don’t believe, for most men, that it’s about “admitting” we don’t know. I believe it’s more about proving we can figure it out.”
Exactly!
‘Knowing’ is irrelevant. The ability to figure it out is everything. It isn’t an binary thing of do or don’t know. It is a process where by all locations may be discovered.
That would drive me crazy.
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.
It’s the difference between geometry, where you have to remember a ton of crap, and algebra, where you have the tools to figure the crap out. I did poorly with the former,
fantastic with the latter.
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.
There are reasons men are better fighter pilots, race car drivers and also better at sports, which is related our spatial concepts. Men are instinctively able to determine speed, distance and vector of another object while also taking into account our own spatial motion. It’s how a centerfielder can track a fly ball, a quarterback can scramble out of the pocket and hit a receiver 30 yards downfield between the cornerback and safety, and a Formula 1 driver can determine in fraction of a second whether he can make a pass or not. Men had to do develop these skills to hunt game. If you could do this, you ate, you lived, you reproduced.
If you couldn’t do this, sooner or later you were lion poo.
I have the same problem; I always have to stop and think, ‘which hand do I write with’?
My husband is always saying, “No, your OTHER right!”
But I have a very good intuitive sense of where I am and how I got there. If I’ve been someplace once, I know where to turn, etc; and I know how to get back the way I came...but it’s not mental at all, it’s feeling.
-JT
Early in a relationship a man LISTENS and tries to FIX.
Then a man learns not to fix.
Later a man learns not to listen.
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.
Maps drive this girl crazy. They are just too, too busy. Cannot read one. Auto GPS was an answer to my prayers, as I used to get lost a lot.
“But why is it when they drive and they get lost, they refuse to stop for directions?”
Reminds me of an old joke: Why does it take 10 million sperm to fertilize one egg? Because none of them will stop to ask for directions.
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