Posted on 09/18/2017 5:56:44 AM PDT by C19fan
A trio of Australian academics say that the gender gap in physics — boys being better at the subject than girls — can be traced to the “pee games” in which boys engage during their youth.
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Must be an excessive amount of yellow snow down under.
Makes perfect sense to me. Calculating how far one can pee is essentially a question of Newtonian mechanics. Experimentation by males helps understand the relationships among mass, velocity, height, gravitational acceleration, launch angle, and total energy. Would not be surprised if a high percentage of expert marksmen, artillerymen, tank gunners, and scratch golfers are also accomplished pissers!
GMTA! See post #22.
I actually think these guys may be on to something.
When I was growing up, lo those many years ago, in boy scouts we whizzed on the fire, on trees, and if someone was foolish enough to leave his boots outside his tent, in the boots. Sometimes in winter, it froze in the boots.
Although, there was physics homework in other endeavors as well. Whenever we got to any kind of overhang: bridge, fire tower, high window, we spit and watched the globule fall to the ground. We climbed trees just to spit from the top and watch it fall. We threw balls, rocks, sticks, darts, homemade spears, nuts & bolts, pennies and marbles. We shot homemade projectile weapons: slingshots and bows. We used atlatl-like devices to throw balls, rocks, and dirt clods.
We were boys and we celebrated it. That kind of stuff doesn’t happen any more and it is a great shame.
Wow. He was good. I remember a “duel” with a friend down at the railroad tracks in third grade. Weapons at 10 feet. He didn’t lay a drop on me. He went home bawling with a soaked shirt.
I never realized until today that my careful calculations of ballistics, pressure profile optimization, nozzle shape, launch angle, aerodynamic friction, Reynold’s Numbers, and quick release valve mechanics on that fateful day led me to enjoy fluid dynamics so much 12 years later.
I agree.
And boys are better at electrical engineering from learning not to pee on an electrical fence?
You never “crossed pee” with your friend? Kind of like sword fighting only with pee.
They always have been, so why stop now?
My bet is these fake arse scientists (psychologists?) are tax payer funded and that they “work” at a public university in Australia
Their solution to create “equality” will be to force parents to make their sons sit to pee, with fines and jail sentences for discriminatory sexist pee games that hate women.
I can’t say that I have! Maybe I was sheltered.
How about this? males are better at hunting and fighting because that was needed for the survival of the species. Women evolved to be better at taking care of the kids and nurturing. (What are those two fleshy bouncy things for?)
There are sex differences because there need to be. It has nothing to do with oppression.
Now I know why I have difficulty understanding physics.. and Australians.7
Thanks.
LMAO
Ping.
Neither have I.
Impressive!
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