Hormones make women safer drivers
By Aussiegirl
Of course, our hormones also make us cranky while we are driving safely, so it's really not worth it to the man. But then, we don't mind asking for directions.
BBC NEWS | Health | Hormones make women safer drivers
The female hormone oestrogen could give women the edge when it comes to tasks such as safe driving, say researchers.
Tests showed attention span and ability to learn rules were far better among women than men.
posted by Aussiegirl @ 10:19 PM
6 Comments:
Holy cow! Men and women are different again? Who'da thunk it?
At least where I live and drive I have noticed that women generally have a certain fondness for their brake pedals. Meaning that they tend to drive more slowly overall allowing themselves more time for decision making. Men on the other hand tend make a choice and plow on ahead even when it's precisely the wrong thing to do.
As for asking directions? Only as a last resort, where's your sense of adventure? America is a nation of explorers and even if we men don't find the address, we're looking for on the first attempt by exploring the layout "near" our ultimate destination we can add to that “mental map” housed in our highly reliable memories. That way we know we’re lost quicker the next time we go to that same place. It’s just a different navigational “style” but because we tend to drive faster, it doesn’t take any more time than stopping for directions. Right Guys?
Absolutely right, TJ!
Also, finding something yourself means you actually LEARN where things are, so you can find it again. If you have to stop for directions every time you go someplace it ends up costing you more time in the long run!
Well, TJ and Tim, once again I have to agree with you. I'm not sure if your theories are correct, I only know that I have been guilty of not asking for directions more than once. It must be pretty general, because just recently I saw yet another TV commercial in which, guess what, the man refused to ask for directions and, guess what, he and the woman sitting beside him with that I-told-you-so look on her face wind up in some god-forsaken place. Now let's widen the discussion a bit and take up the related problem of why men--I think I'm correct here, judging from myself and TV commercials with the same theme--often don't use instruction manuals. Here again we see the stronger sex refusing to follow directions and winding up in a mess, again with someone of the weaker sex looking on with that I-told-you-so look on her face. Still, things must have been different in ancient times when the men went forth in search of dinosaur meat to bring back to the cave. If their sense of direction--which was all they had to rely on, anybody else to ask directions from not being available--was as bad as it is today, I guess the species would have died out from hunger. Ah, what an excellent topic for a term paper!
Love the rationalizations for not asking directions. In reality, it goes back to primitive times, I found this on the web somewhere:
Asking for directions means giving a complete stranger a higher status than you, so he has permission to burn your crops and pillage your houses. Who wants that? A man would rather pull over and yell insults at a stranger than to ask him how to get somewhere.
Anyway -- if Columbus had asked directions he wouldn't have blundered his way to the New World, and America would be called Sven, or something.
Yeah, I hate when they burn my crops. Happens every time we go on a trip...
Columbus, now there was a true man...
You know, I actually hate stopping to ask directions when I'm driving. But if we're looking for something in a store, my boyfriend prefers to look all over the place while I'll walk up to someone who works there and simply ask if they have it.
As for better drivers...they totally have the attention span thing correct. My boyfriend (and most men I've known) cannot do two things at once. No multi-tasking for him! Drives me nuts. I imagine that would make driving hard. ;)
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