dear god please don't let my hubby read this lol
Women's sense of direction. What happened to it?
Went that away!! :arrow:
LOL...hate to be informed on this but it is apparently to do with the links between left and right brain. Seems according to the pros that women's brains have many more connections between the left and the right side which in fact gives them better potential at communication. However a downside is that it seems to affect their spatial awareness. Though women can have good spatial awareness the genetic tendency is for a males to be better (Note I said tendency not always). Some have argued that this is linked to the males hunting past but that point is not really accepted by anyone who has been chased the a bunch of lioness' from a local pride! Actually know some great female map readers but it is just less likely that women will have picked up map reading as something they enjoy and so got better at. Also explains (with the communication bit) why they are so much keener to ask someone.
In one study it was found that when asked most men actually knew where North was even when in unfamiliar settings (ie they hadn't neen told before which was North) without having to work it out, where as women had to work it out. Someone tried this on me before they told me about this and I was amazed to find that actually I did know even though I would bet money on not having a clue!
Also interestingly women have a wider field of view which than us men. Men tend to have quite a narrow view which is irritating on two fronts. 1. We can be hunting for hours in a cupboard and the woman will just glance at it and see what we were looking for. (Guys if you've lost something it is worth asking women to have a look for you. As we get more stressed, ie where the hell are the car keys?, our field of view actually narrows!!) 2. Women can eye up a person without having to turn their head where as we tend to turn the whole head to improve our field of view thus giving ourselves away and at least earning a poke in the ribs. which also now means when you walk passed an attractive person you'll be wondering if she did eye them but and be irritated as hell that she might have done even though she didn't move her head. But at least that explains why women are so much better at reading the street signs.
There's a couple of good books on this...Men are from mars and women are from venus and Why Men don't Listen and Women can't Read Maps.
Recently read on the bbc news web site that SATNAV systems are improving family holidays as more familys go out to new places with SATNAV because they don't end up having a steaming row when lost!!
Ok this is the point where I realise I'm going on too much....just love all this psychology stuff!
Jez is spot on , I read a facinating article about it in The Mail , basically ( although like anything its a generalisation) the parts of the brain that relate to spatial awareness ( direction , space and our position relative to other objects) are genetically more likely to be better developed in men than in women . Effectively this means that women find it more difficult to visualise abstract representations of direction and space ( ie maps) for example when travelling along a road which runs from top of the page to the bottom they get confused when visualising turning left , as on the page it appears to be turning right ( thats why they turn the AtoZ upside down sometimes. )
Its not a sexist remark , its just how it is , and one of the glorious things that make the sexes different and so mutually attractive .
Generalisations, generalisations......
I have had some real trouble with girls trying to read a map in a car, BUT what about Ellen McArthur who got herself round the world single handed on a boat or the many other women who are pilots or senior officers in the merchant navy?
Met the Australian Captain of an LNG tanker in Singapopre last year in the shipyard and SHE was very nice!!!
McC
Dewi:
I thought EVERYONE had sat nav in their cars these days - but maybe I am wrong!
Female explorers? Hmm will have to think - hold on though what about Amelia Erharht the female pilot in the 1930s or Shiela Scott (?) first woman to fly around the world in the 1960s?
Apart from that though I am strugling I must admit!
McC
Lets not be unfair to the girls . After all their vision when driving is often impaired , a scientific study at CalTech in the states showed that most women see the road similar to the picture below.
Maybe us women do this just to annoy men. :twisted: :twisted:
Or have you forgotten that we can always find expensive clothes shops when a man is paying.................. :evil2:
We have to have our fun as well........ so don't underestimate a womans sense of direction........it comes down to choice!!! :crazy: :silly: :grin:
I can iron fairly well. And here's my tips...........
Take most garments and trun them inside out.
You can see the stitching and you can flatten it all out, more or less as good as the day it was made. Depending on the quality of the garment and its design. French stitches like you get in shirts and bespoke clothing don't really work with this technique.
Then iron out the garment from the seams and it all flattens out very nicely.
That will do most of the garment excluding, pleatings and attachmnents. Overlocked clothes work very well as do most knitted garments.
So there you have it. Inside out first then finish with the fiddly bits.
I think I have a good sense of direction.............. I know my head is north and my toes are south !!!
The one with the watch is left or west and the one with the bracelet is right or east !!!
And I can always manage to find the designer dress outlet !!!! everytime
Jez_Notts is right.
It all originates from our beginigs. Men had to provide they food so they are better in hearing and seeing long distance but can only focus on one thing at the tiem (not that thing you fools, I mean hunting)
Women hat to protect the immediate surroundings, that is (and we men have probably alwyas wondered about this) because they hear everything in their near surroundings even if it is 5 conversations at once, which we men can not do. They also see everything going on in the immediate surroundings. That is why we men get caught out so often.
The essence is that women do not need the sense of long distance navigation to survive but we men do.
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.........how do you explain a woman navigating you around your run on friday (which ever way the map was up!! :shock: ) so that you finished about an hour earlier that you would have done, had you had to work out your routes yourself 
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but brill at driving and riding 
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