According to a study conducted by Dr. Claudia Wolf of Ruhr University, women have more difficulty parking cars than men. Dr. Wolf decided to carry out the study to determine whether “prejudices” concerning women’s driving ability are correct. When she found that they are, Dr. Wolf said the study “only proves what previous studies about the spatial differences between men and women have shown.”
Feminist author Germaine Greer dismissed the study as “pointless,” but conceded that men “have a very insignificant advantage in spatial awareness when it comes to parking.”
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“Feminist author Germaine Greer dismissed the study as “pointless,” but conceded that men “have a very insignificant advantage in spatial awareness when it comes to parking.””
I’d personally like to test this theory, and have a pistol duel with Ms. Greer, and see if my insignificant advantage at spatial awareness comes into play.
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I am waiting for the day when misandrists make a major push to ‘correct’ the fact that men earn more money in sports than women.
The audience is sexist, of course.
But this sort of thing will bring more ‘laughingstock’ capital to work against misandrists.
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I wonder how insignificant that advantage would seem to her if it was her BMW that some woman backed into?
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“Dr Claudia Wolf from Ruhr University in Bochum, Germany, who led the study, said that the research confirmed previous findings that men have better co-ordination and spatial awareness than women”
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I can identify with that. My spatial awareness is not as good as hubby’s and yes, I take longer to park the car. As I am aware of this deficit, I take much more care when parking. I have never had an accident yet. (touch wood
Germaine Greer??????? She is all but forgotten here in Oz. Every now and again she will raise her ugly head to ridicule or demean. She is , of little consequence and is an attention seeker who adopts a contoversial pose whether it be about our native Aborigines or deceased celebrities. I find her to be quite a nasty and insensitive woman.
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lol, didn’t you read the article? That just MAKES IT WORSE!!
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‘Rape culture’, ‘patriarchy’, ‘false consciousness’, ‘social constructs’, etc.
They’ve been there, done that.
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Well, all right, that’s not a ‘major push’. That’ll teach me to read too hastily.
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“‘You must remember that women also have bosoms which makes it very difficult to turn around.
‘However, did we really need to know this? Should we now stop women from parking? Of course not. These scientists were just trying to provoke people like me and it sounds like an extreme waste of resources.’”
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Just in case it’s not clear, the above quote is from Greer, in the article, not from me.
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“Should we now stop women from parking?”
No, LOL – we should stop them from driving.
(Kidding.)
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The Chinese have the answer – women only parking lots with parking bays one metre (3ft) wider than normal.
And so do the South Koreans.
And the Croats tried it too. With less success: “It’s just old fashioned sexist nonsense to suggest that a woman can’t park every bit as well as a man – if not better…..Do they think we’re disabled or something?”
Maybe we shouldn’t answer that. It’s not her fault she has a proportionally smaller parietal lobe.
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“‘You must remember that women also have bosoms which makes it very difficult to turn around.”
You can ALWAYS tell a bad driver, because they turn around.
You can ALWAYS tell a good driver, because they use their mirrors.
(truck drivers know what I’m talking about)
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“lol, didn’t you read the article? That just MAKES IT WORSE!! ”
Awwww, cut me some slack Snark. I AM blonde… after all.
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Love this quote:
“Different” sense of distance…
LMAO
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Dr Claudia Wolf…
Well, it took someone with a Phd and probably lots of money to spell out what everybody has known for years.
I am always flabbergasted at the sagacity of university graduates. What would we do without them?
I guess another genius from some university will “discover” that butter melts when subjected to heat.
Is there any limit to their intelligence?
Dr Wolf is a goddess. I am laying flat on my face and I hope she will deign step all over me.
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What women really cannot do is read street maps. My wife simply cannot make head or tail of them. Total inability to rotate objects mentally. Typically feminine.
Germaine Greer is now pretty largely a joke. I am surprised they asked her for her opinion. She was a very striking looking woman in her day, and she is quite bright, but ineffably silly.
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Parking Hits Women the Hardest®
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You must remember that women also have bosoms which makes it very difficult to turn around.
Huh? I don’t know how having bosoms makes it difficult to turn around, they don’t interfere with my ability to do so. What a silly excuse.
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Death to all spatialist oppressors?
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Write ups like these are always fun when we get the feminist opinion on the science being provided. Thanks, Welmer!
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Hilarious,
My job is to drive a truck around and fix stuff, and my work van does not have side or rear windows so I totally rely on my mirrors, and I can make that huge GM 3500 van fit in spaces which are 6″ bigger than it. How? I know the depth of my van, and park carefully.
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I’m a man and I don’t have a great perception of distance. A few months ago I switched from a mid-sized car to a sub-compact due to limited on street parking and I’m still surprised by how much room there is between my rear fender and the car parked behind. I also tend to leave a foot or more between the car and the curb without knowing I’ve done so.
I’ve never been in an accident, with 20 plus years driving. Perhaps the knowledge that I’m not as good as some at judging distance makes me more cautious on the road.
I live in a city with a great deal of truckers, if I gave it some thought I would be quite in awe of their abilities to circumvent tight spaces. About 10% or so of truckers in my demographic are women, and they tend to be more masculine then the average women. Perhaps this is one area where I have to admit to a female trait?
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Kave,
It does seem to be a predominantly masculine trait, but as with any such trait, the strength of the ability will vary among men (and across the sexes).
It’s the whole “mentally rotating objects in space” thing that scientists study–because they can figure out a test for it and call it something–though I do think it’s a bit misleading as to one’s abilities in that area.
I would say I am better at it than most women but struggle at it more than most men. I can’t park for shit. I drive a box truck for a living, but I have to be EXTRA careful and I overcompensate in much the way you mentioned. However, I also have to move large objects through hallways, stairs, and I’ve developed the ability to visualize that pretty well.
The weird thing about it to me is that I have always been a very talented representational artist, so my visual-spatial perception is highly advanced in that regard and has been for as long as I can remember. (Women love “the arts” but many favor “self-expression” over precise representation in practice. Men seem to prefer and appreciate the skill of precise representation. As with anything, there are exceptions.) I have no problem visualizing plans, etc.
It may be an issue with perceiving objects in motion that is my actual difficulty. I seem to have a lag there, which creates difficulty with say, parking or catching something, but not with, say sculpting a 3 dimensional form or looking at a floor plan and being able to mentally walk through a building.
I’ve never seen a study that makes that distinction.
When it comes to studying the brain I think scientists are still (relatively speaking) stabbing around in the dark compared to their understanding of other parts of the body. So, while entertaining, I don’t put a lot of stock into provocative studies like this. There are pretty obviously some differences between the way men and women think–but I think we’re a long way from really understanding them.
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Well, the problem is obvious, parking spaces are too small because they are designed and engineered by MEN! The obvious solution is to have parking designed/engineered by women and large enough to accommodate women . . . isn’t it obvious ?
Sorry, couldn’t help myself it was just the typical response I’d expect from a feminist.
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Maybe scientists study it because a lot of them are good at it.
I’m very good at those tricks. I was pretty mediocre at ordinary algebra, but I could figure things out by visualizing them, so I’d get much higher math scores than I should have on multiple choice tests. Chemistry was also very easy for me, as I could visualize the molecular structures without any effort. As a driver, I can park anywhere the car can fit — usually on the first try. It does seem to be a masculine trait, because although I’ve met guys who have the same skill, I’ve never yet met a woman who does, even though I’ve met plenty of women who can outperform me in other mental tasks.
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I think the best reply to this is to admit I’m not 100% on the male trait scale. I doubt any of us are.
If we were then my guess men would be completely Rambo or Gates, and women would be all Munroe or Stewart. (though it could be argued that Gates and Stewart possess opposite sex traits within their extreme).
I would argue that many to most male traits are in my opinion superior, but I would not lay claim that only men have these traits.
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Kave
That is 100% true. I know men who are “strong with the force” and men who are less so, or who have this and not that.
The phrasing of this can be tricky and misleading (and sometimes offensive).
Ultimately all men–even extremely effeminate males–are more like males than they are like females. They don’t and cannot know what being a woman is, and they have always seen the world through male eyes.
There are traits that are found much more often in males, and they contribute to our idea of what manliness is.
This is important to remember that men are not “50% female” or “40% female” when you’re having this sort of discussion. Males are 100% male unless they are hermaphrodites.
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@charles martel
“But women should just learn how to drive properly.”
I laughed reading the parking story in Croatia. One of the reasons for the special parking spots was their proximity to the entrance so that the ladies in high heels would not have to drag their shopping bags too far???
In any case, Croatia is still a relatively patriarchal culture with a little twist. In general, women were and are still expected to work while bringing up a family and were never considered disabled. That is why both men and women asked for the parking places to be removed. Plus, driving licenses are not just given out lightly as they are in the States so women actually do have to know how to park, no automatics.
One more point, even if women are worse when it comes to parking they are more likely to get you from point A to point B without getting into a fatal crash. Why? They take less risks. Women know that the point of getting into a car is to get somewhere and not to prove their masculinity. That is why car insurance rates are up to 10% lower for women in some of the states.
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Gee wiz you mean when I get in my car I’m just showing how big a dick I have. I always thought I drove my car to get to a destination. Thanks for clearing that up. Now I know that my car is a penis pedestal. What would I do without your wisdom? Just curious
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@migu
Nope, i do not mean that at all, but hey, if that is how you relate to your car, fine by me.
I am talking about aggressive, show off driving that I rarely experience by women and often by men that “consider” themselves macho. Sure, not all men drive like that but, hey, enough do and it raises insurance rates. If you have evidence to contrary, please submit.
“Female drivers take an average of 20 seconds longer to park their cars but are still less likely to end up in the middle of the bay, the research suggests. ”
So what, it’s not like they are killing someone. I
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Just Curious,
Actually, only young males get into more accidents. And if you further broke it down, you would find that insurance companies charge more for males because on average males spend more miles behind the wheel than females. Think about a husband and wife… when driving together, who usually is the one behind the wheel?
I lived in a province for a spell (twice) that had differing rates for males and females. Once when I was 17/18, and my insurance was batshit insane compared to my then girlfriend. I also lived there again when I was 29-32, and my insurance dropped to a mere $490/yr – down from over $1,200 a dozen years earlier. By that age, there was virtually zero difference in insurance rates.
But, on average, a male spends more hours behind the wheel than a female, and thus, his chances of being in an accident are obviously higher. And yet, there was no difference in insurance – that also says something, eh?
This is a tired feminist old saw that has many times before tried to be used to show female superiority – by hook or by crook, eh?
Btw. I am a pilot as well, and I encourage you to check into the rate of aircraft accidents by sex of the pilot… put that extra dimension of up and down into the mix, and it comes to a much higher rate of incidents for female pilots than males.
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“I would argue that many to most male traits are in my opinion superior, but I would not lay claim that only men have these traits.”
Females shouldn’t self loathe-
Female mental traits to be admired; Multitasking, synergistic thought, expression, empathy, vocabulary, verbal agility, social adaptibility, facial recognition, recall memory, smell perception (that might not be mental as much), and fine motor control. The synergistic thought is the big one. Think multi-processing computers. The problem is the synergism ties into emotions which cloud perception with feelings, or otherwise becomes needlessly tangled up (when thinking about a rose as a botanist, it is a henderence to associate it with all the metaphorical significance it has accrued). Marylin Van Savant, who I personally don’t like, as she is a feminazi, is a genius who has tapped into this female synergism which has allowed for incredible problem solving skills. Some say her IQ is the highest recorded. That is open to debate, as the higher an IQ is, the harder it is to get an accurate quantification of it.
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If women could quiet their mind, they would be smarter and happier.
They should all become Buddhist.
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@fedrz
You are right, the differential disappears as men get older and some of it disappears if you take into account the number of hours spent behind the wheel, yet not all of it. I agree, men in general are better when it comes to spatial awareness. But men are also generally more confident than women and more inclined to taking risks, some risks taken are rewarding and some are not.
I actually looked up the higher rate of aircraft accidents by sex of the pilot and if you control for variables such as experience and flying hours in the past six months (proxy for risk exposure) you will find that statistically these higher rates are insignificant. However, there is some selection bias here since I hope pilot schools select only men and women who are superior when it comes to spatial intelligence and eye hand coordination in the first place.
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Just Curious,
Yes, I can see that the pilot one can be misleading… but, perhaps not for the reasons what you stated – this is just from my personal observation, so, take it as you will.
Comparing male pilots to female pilots, the males were far more willing to live like dirty dogs to get their hours. I trained with several female pilots, and sad to say, they felt awfully entitled compared to the males.
Virtually all of us males hopped into our cars in the early spring – and basically lived out of them – as we drove up north dropping off resumes at every airport hangar we could. And, btw, living in your car in March in northern Canada is no peach of a way to live, but it is what you must do. As guys, we offered to paint hangars for free, pound fence posts into the boss’s yard, or, would just pick up a broom and start sweeping floors for free just to make a good impression. Virtually all of us found our first job somewhere in the far north in some little hick town, doing shit work for minimum wage, just for the hopes that after a year, they would be impressed with us enough to start giving us flying hours – which is worth far more to a beginning pilot than your hourly wages.
Compared to the female pilots, hardly any of them went up north to apply for jobs, and there were none that lived out of their cars. When talking to them about how they were going to find their first job, the vast majority insisted that they would get hired either in the city, or in a place where the weather was warm etc. etc. In other words, where most males only wind up after having several thousands of hours under their belts, and became in high demand for their skills.
Males got hired at a much higher rate – and for far more dangerous types of work (Bush pilot/rough runways/inclement weather/little support etc) than the females, who, if they did get hired at all, were mostly getting hired as receptionists or office girls, and if they got hours at all, it was mostly safe flying – tours, transporting from airport to airport/good weather/good air support etc.
That is just my personal observation, from a small sample of pilots. But, the difference in experience is, well… significant.
Those feminists that are trying to affirmative action females into ATPL positions at barely 2,000 hrs (the minimum requirement for an ATPL) are doing the public a crime, in my opinion.
Flying is very tough, and only the best of the best make it. It is a pure meritocracy, as it should be, because it is very important to have only the most competent of people taking the lives of others into their hands. These feminists that were screeching for affirmative action for female pilots is downright dangerous. Very few pilots make it in the first place. That is no job for affirmative action and the industry is very good at weeding out the deadbeats before they have the responsibility of caring for the lives of others, thank goodness.
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@just curious
I totally concede the point that women drivers take less risks. Of course, like all statements of this sort, I mean that (on average), [young] women drivers take less risks.
I have known some excellent women drivers – I am married to one. I trust her 100% to get me there alive. But at times she still has trouble driving backwards.
So many points to make in response to this. I have run into at least one young female driver who drove like a maniac. I doubt she was trying to prove her masculinity, but who knows?
When I was 20, my brother and I would bump each other on the highway at 70 mph for fun. Also drive at 130 mph when we thought we could get away with it and do various other stupid stuff. As I recall, this was not an attempt to prove my masculinity, more an outward expression of my pleasure at my mastery of the vehicle, coupled with the male cognitive bias towards overestimating competence.
This takes us back to an evolutionary biology argument. Who did better with the women 60,000 years ago, the paleolithic hunter who thought, “I can take down that bison, no problem,” or the one who thought, “maybe not such a good idea, I might get hurt.” A deterministic argument, with a deterministic solution. On average, the (over)confident paleolithic hunter did better. Hence the gene(s) for overestimating competence (or underestimating the influence of random factors) were propagated and today you have the reckless, young male driver.
I can tell you that I am probably a safer driver now that I am older, primarily due to the fact that I now recognize my cognitive bias towards overestimating my own competence. However, I can still drive any vehicle at 30 mph through a gap that is one foot wider than the vehicle. And parallel park in 1o seconds winding up less than 6 inches from the kerb. And I did not play baseball or basketball as a boy.
This issue of hard-wired cognitive bias keeps growing for me the more I think about it. It explains so much, for both genders influencing perception of the other in really important ways.
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“””””As I recall, this was not an attempt to prove my masculinity, more an outward expression of my pleasure at my mastery of the vehicle, coupled with the male cognitive bias towards overestimating competence.
This takes us back to an evolutionary biology argument. Who did better with the women 60,000 years ago, the paleolithic hunter who thought, “I can take down that bison, no problem,” or the one who thought, “maybe not such a good idea, I might get hurt.” A deterministic argument, with a deterministic solution. On average, the (over)confident paleolithic hunter did better. Hence the gene(s) for overestimating competence (or underestimating the influence of random factors) were propagated and today you have the reckless, young male driver.
This issue of hard-wired cognitive bias keeps growing for me the more I think about it. It explains so much, for both genders influencing perception of the other in really important ways.””””
I am giddy in agreement! God, I am a geek. Only a geek would get the tingles from a blog post about the nuances of evolutionary psychology.
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@fedrz
Is this actually happening? I’m a private pilot and try to keep in touch with the bigger issues in aviation, and have thought that the certification of Air Transport Pilots is one small remaining oasis of reality where objective standards are consistently applied.
I have only seen one study that compared the accident rates of male and female ATPs, and as I recall there was a small and statistically insignificant difference between the two, with the female accident rate very slightly higher.
I have actually been considering researching this topic for a Spearhead article. Also considering writing an article on Kara Hultgreen, as her story embodies the entire PC, affirmative-action, male/female traits, cognitive bias universe. I hesitate on that one though, out of respect, as she gave her life in service of her country.
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Women do not get the distinction, on average, between “mischievous/risky guy fun” and some sort of cosmic pissing contest. Men engage in both, but when they’re really enjoying themselves it is often the first.
That cognitive bias is probably half inherited and half based on a history of success, but can be summed up as the kind of “physical courage” and self-trust that is ultimately a male quality that (as always) some men have more than others. I refer to the whole “flying by the seat of your pants” thing as “Lucky Jackass 101.” I have an alpha pal that does fully stupid shit effortlessly and barely ever gets caught…that phrase came from riding shotgun with him driving. Action sequences are virtually all male Lucky Jackass 101 fantasies.
But your way of is saying it is more eloquent.
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What is life without risk?
My goal is to make Epicure lie with his “Each of us quit life with the sentiment that we were just born”.
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@ Charles Martel,
Yes, they have been trying, but so far I don’t believe they have been successful anywhere, thank goodness. It was probably 2 or 3 years ago though, the last that I had heard of it, so maybe they’ve quit trying.
It is another one of those things that can easily be twisted around in an attempt to show discrimination – to those who are unfamiliar with the industry, and do not understand what the typical pilot must go through in order to rise up in the industry – especially via the private route rather than the military. (If I were to do it over, I would go through the military – after +/- 10yrs of service in the military, you are in high demand in the private sector, and it will take you 10 years to make it without the military anyways, unless you have previous connections – in the Canadian Military, you must sign up for 9.5yrs after your training, to make it cost effective for them). It is a pretty unfair system to the pilots in the private sector, but, dems da breaks. It is best for society.
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@JD
Yes, but….I’ll get to the but in a moment.
Soon after I first arrived in the US (on an H1-B visa), I was driving home from an after-work keg party with a co-worker, a former pro football player in the passenger seat. I am embarrassed to say I certainly shouldn’t have been driving for obvious reasons. I had a Saab Turbo (funny how an immigrant’s first car is always the car that was cool back home). On a wide two lane road, I began to pass the car in front of me. As I did, he began to pass the car in front of him, and now we were three abreast at 50+ mph. At that moment, a car appeared coming the other way, saw me driving straight at him and pulled over close to the kerb. This all happened very fast, and I recall thinking “f#*k it”, or something similar, and I just pulled over to the left on the center car and drove through the gap. I missed the car coming the other way but touched the car I was passing.
The car that I had touched and I both stopped after this Lucky Jackass 101 moment and I realized that the other driver was also in no state to drive. A woman who had seen the whole scenario occur in front of her house yelled at us that she had called the police. The two of us (the other driver and me) looked at each, got in our cars and left.
As this scenario unfolded, my passenger, the ex-pro footballer, curled into the foetal position and let out a high-pitched scream. He never spoke to me again.
Here’s the but…….this was a Lucky Jackass 101 moment, but I do have very good spatial awareness.
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“But your way of is saying it is more eloquent.”
Your way is more poetic. Which one a young man who stumbles here may find more relevent is up in the air. Best to have both. They also reinforce each other, and help fill in the other’s gaps, so to speak. Together, they paint a more accurate picture. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
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Should have been……and I just pulled over to the right on the center car and drove through the gap.
Extraordinary. As I was remembering this incident, which took place in the USA, I visualized it as if it had taken place in the UK where I lived until I was 25.
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@ Charles Martel,
Btw, just to be clear, I did not make it in the industry, as is the story of most who try. After I failed my Class 1 Medical a few years back, I was out of the game… but, in all honesty, it was wearing thin on me before that.
It was a great adventure in my life though, and I don’t regret it one one bit… and I sure have a lot of respect for those who did make it. They were, quite simply, better than I was, and deserved it more than I did.
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“Extraordinary. As I was remembering this incident, which took place in the USA, I visualized it as if it had taken place in the UK where I lived until I was 25.”
Never trust your own mind completely. It is not concerned with accuracy or honesty as much as it is with survival. Cognitive biases are a bitch. Memories are notoriously innarcurate.
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In another addition to the “well, duh” department, the headline on this story says it all:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/05/health/05weight.html?ref=science
“Study Says Women With Mate Get Heavier”
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@Jabherwochie
I decided long ago that if I ever found myself a juror in a criminal trial where the prosecution case depended on the testimony of one eyewitness I would not vote for a conviction, no matter what.
Think about how many men have been imprisoned for rape based on that exact scenario.
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Usually the guys who rely on “Lucky Jackass 101″ do have very good spatial awareness. That’s why they trust themselves to do stupid shit. I wasn’t trying to say there is no basis in reality for the behavior–there absolutely is.
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Who the hell has time for a study on this?
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And this is news? I couldn’t park if my life depended on it. I’m that person that parks five cars away from everyone else if I can, just to make sure I don’t hit anybody by accident when parking.
This made me laugh, Welmer. Thanks.
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An area where spatial acuity with respect to vehicles is troublesomely absent in women is an ability to use mirrors. My father taught me to back a tractor under a trailer (18 wheeler tractor/trailer) using mirrors only when I was 12. My now (thankfully) ex couldn’t use mirrors in traffic at the age of 45 – probably still cannot.
I think this is just another ‘tip of the iceberg’ issue with the female brain – as is their time preference for use of resources. They simply cannot think beyond themselves whether physically (in a vehicle) or in time (long term interests of the relationship/family). It is simply beyond their comprehension.
Though anecdotal, I view dealing with the ex much as one would deal with a 12 year old child. She simply doesn’t have the comprehensive/logical skills to engage on any other level – and the woman is 50 years old.
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The Fifth Horseman January 4, 2010 at 13:54
“I am waiting for the day when misandrists make a major push to ‘correct’ the fact that men earn more money in sports than women.”
At wimbledon last year the women were paid the same as the men. The wimmins final lasted less than 1 hour. The mens final lasted a bit over 5 hours. Indeed, the mens final last set lasted longer than the wimmins entire final.
The mens final this year was, in my opinion, the greatest tennis match I have ever seen. Andy Roddick only lost the his service game once in 5 sets and that was in the last game when he was clearly showing some signs of tiredness.
Women suck at sports as badly as they such at math and science. Yet, we are compelled to subsidise second rate ‘sports’ played by women rather than simply celebrate the awsome achievements of Federer and Roddick in such a tennis match. And to make it worse they had some stupid bimbo woman presenter talk to Federer and Roddick at the end of the match. There is nowhere that women do not intrude like cockroaches. I am just really sick of listening to western women prattle on about anything.
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Women are terrible drivers. They can’t park for nuts. In my house the car count was 3-0 and no men get any prizes for guessing who had totalled three cars. My ex once turned right across three lanes traffic against a red light on one of the busiest roads in Sydney with the kids in the car. She was damn lucky that the car that ran into her was only quite small. There are plenty of trucks on that road and they would have had no chance of stopping. When I asked her how it could be she could turn against the red light on that road (a trun she made pretty much every day for years) she said “I was not thinking”….which pretty much sums up women drivers.
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http://www.crashstuff.com/men-versus-women-drivers-car-accidents-statistics/
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I’d guess it’s some advantage and more lack of women caring/applying themselves. This is an area they’re not upset to be worse at, esp. since the official media position is that they aren’t, on average, it’s just a myth.
But this actually illustrates how lots of nature/nurture effects actually operate. Without outsided effort, there tends to be positive feedback in making a hard nature difference expressed more strongly through nurture. People focus on what they’re good and, what comes easily to them, and that they enjoy. And unless there’s a huge penalty and/or all kinds of pressure/help, don’t so much the things they are.
Which leads me to think that we should maximize what we’re best at with adequacy in other important areas, and society should encourage that as well, instead of seeking sameness. Or equalism.
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To all those who question why someone would conduct a study like this consider what would have happened if they had observed the opposite result–feminists everywhere would have rolled out the red carpet and blared their horns, spouting about out-moded, sexist ideas about women and how this disproves commonly held beliefs by the evil-oppressors.
That goal is obviously the point behind this study. But the woman conducting it had the integrity not to fudge the data to guarantee that result (or at least, not enough to guarantee that result), and so instead of a deafening roar of “I told you so”, we get a tiny tremor of “so what?”
I’m almost surprised that the result actually got published at all–this is the sort of result one might expect to simply be suppressed. However, I’m only almost surprised–Dr. Wolf’s career may well have depended upon publishing this, since she presumably had to get grant money to study it and needed something to show for her efforts. It’s nice to have another confirmation that self-interest outweighs her devotion to the sisterhood.
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