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Posted on 01/24/2005 9:01:14 AM PST by Rodney King
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To: <1/1,000,000th%
Maybe it was the water they where drinking. Plus, than look at the numbers, seems to be not enough to make the grade. Must be blondes.
141
posted on
01/24/2005 10:14:55 AM PST
by
Romad Wife
(Thru, Grace Alone, Scripture Alone, Faith Alone!)
To: Rodney King
Research has also found that in childhood, girls' vocabulary develops more quickly and that in later life women can speak 20,000 to 25,000 words a day compared to a man's 7000 to 10,000. Why use 2 words when a thousand will do.
To: Sacajaweau
When I read "Millions of people were lost last year due to faulty directional skills. None of those unadaptable people have been located", I'll start to worry about this TRIVIA survey.Sort of like people who get upset when a cat gets "stuck" in a tree. I know that I've yet to see a dead cat in a tree.
Mark
143
posted on
01/24/2005 10:15:53 AM PST
by
MarkL
(That which does not kill me, has made the last mistake it will ever make!)
To: SuziQ
I print out both. But sometimes MapQuest is just WRONG, and it can screw you up BAD! LOL!See my note about yahoo maps!
Mark
144
posted on
01/24/2005 10:16:30 AM PST
by
MarkL
(That which does not kill me, has made the last mistake it will ever make!)
To: Jonx6
I've always wondered why the women in my
life could not read a map, and I mean almost all of them.
To be fair, I also know a couple women with advance degrees in GIS.
To: Clemenza
It looks like I'm not normal!
Darn blow that study out of the water!
146
posted on
01/24/2005 10:23:14 AM PST
by
Romad Wife
(Bless our Military guys! Miss ya!)
To: Rodney King
Or why they insist on writing checks for .23 cent items at the supermarket? Or why they wait to start writing that check, or for that matter, won't dig said checkbook out of the morass of the giant pocketbook until presented with a total.
Conversely, this may explain why men are reluctant to ask for directions.
Research has also found that in childhood, girls' vocabulary develops more quickly and that in later life women can speak 20,000 to 25,000 words a day compared to a man's 7000 to 10,000.
Oh, to find a woman with nothing to say...
147
posted on
01/24/2005 10:26:57 AM PST
by
TC Rider
(The United States Constitution © 1791. All Rights Reserved.)
To: Rodney King
My girlfriend always gets us lost. I used to let her read maps and give directions, but she kept getting us lost and the last few times she almost cried. No joke. I felt bad, but I made a funny comment about wanting to be manly and read the map and do directions by myself.
I think she appreciated my humor, and that I saved her more embarrassment!
I just sent her this article, we'll see what she thinks of my humor later! ahhaha
148
posted on
01/24/2005 10:29:50 AM PST
by
t_skoz
("let me be who I am - let me kick out the jams!")
To: twigs
I can read maps just fine. I just have a problem figuring out which direction is north or south or east or west! LOL
149
posted on
01/24/2005 10:30:35 AM PST
by
mlc9852
To: All
Wonder what happens when one sees: "Detour" "Road closed".
How do men and women cope...or do they both say "sh**"? Do fathers apologize to the kids in the backseat for using a bad word or do just mother's do that?
I need a GRANT. We may be nearing a breakthrough on several differences.
150
posted on
01/24/2005 10:32:25 AM PST
by
Sacajaweau
(God Bless Our Troops!!)
To: Rodney King
I'm thinking men have more "football matter" and less "figure skating matter". Women are vice-versa.
To: arizonarachel
Were you the passenger?
Heck no, I wasn't with her! :)
How did she figure it out? When it occured to here that the signs were telling her that the distance to Minneapolis was decreasing and Milwaukeee wasn't even on the sign.
The kicker on this is, this was the return trip. She made the trip to Madison fine that morning. That's why the Dell's is even funnier because she knew it wasn't on here way TO Madison but found it plausible it would be on the way BACK to Milwaukee :)
Thank god she doesn't read FR.
152
posted on
01/24/2005 10:34:14 AM PST
by
Daus
To: moonpie57
My husband and I boat extensively on the Great Lakes and I do all the chartplotting, mapping, and GPS work. Without me he would be, well let's just say..... lost.
153
posted on
01/24/2005 10:35:38 AM PST
by
Toespi
To: twigs
It sounds like they had a very limited study group of 22 and are trying to extrapolate that result to billions of people.
My middle daughter is the best at math and worst at map-reading and spatial relationships and always gets lost. At sunset on a clear day she can't figure out which way is West. My youngest daughter is 2d best at math but never gets lost, always knows how to come and go from places she has never been before.
I'll bet that the average home-schooled boy has many the vocabulary of a girl of the same IQ from the public uneducation system. Let me pick the sample group and the test method and I'll produce any statistic that will get me funding to do more research.
154
posted on
01/24/2005 10:37:07 AM PST
by
NormalGuy
(Almost half are below average. We should spare no expense until everyone is above average.)
To: Hatteras
I'm inclined to think that the brain develops according to what we are taught, tempered by what we like. "WE drive the brain, the brain doesn't drive us".
155
posted on
01/24/2005 10:38:41 AM PST
by
Sacajaweau
(God Bless Our Troops!!)
To: NormalGuy
Make that "...many times the...."
156
posted on
01/24/2005 10:39:10 AM PST
by
NormalGuy
(Almost half are below average. We should spare no expense until everyone is above average.)
To: Rodney King
Speaking of, isn't it about time we start seeing the articles about the spousal abuse rates skyrocketing during the Super Bowl?
My prediction? Somebody will demand that Budweiser pull that absolutely wonderful ad about the referee and his amazing tolerance for abuse from the coaches on the sidelines.
To: Daus
"Ummm... Take it from a guy who'se wife once drove 150 miles north when she should have been going east... There is something to this. :) "
Similar situation:
The wife was supposed to drive on a business trip to Orlando and wound up in Sarasota....... :-)
158
posted on
01/24/2005 10:45:37 AM PST
by
roaddog727
(The marginal propensity to save is 1 minus the marginal propensity to consume.)
To: A Ruckus of Dogs
Women frequently despair at men's reluctance to ask directions when their map-reading skills fail. Ok, time to reveal a secret to women. There is a very good, logical reason why men don't want to ask for directions. It's because we can't trust another man to give correct directions. Let me explain. If a man and his friend are on the side of the road and a car pulls up and someone asks them how to get to, let's say Highway J, the man and his friend will start giving directions.
Even if they have no idea how to get to Highway J.
You see, they aren't going to admit that they don't know where Highway J is from that point. So, as long as they send the car away, they are happy.
The man driving knows this and isn't going to "just stop and ask someone". When he finally needs to know, he will likely stop at a truckstop or a busy gas station so he can have the highest possibility of getting correct instructions.
See, logical.
To: Rodney King; VRWCmember
...in later life women can speak 20,000 to 25,000 words a day...And still not say a damn thing...
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