Plus-sized parking spaces provides wider room for Chinese women drivers - Polidicks

[QUOTE=sltungle;45438056][url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/sex/articles/spatial_tests.shtml[/url] It's scientific fact, and it'll probably be covered in any semi-decent psychology course. Women and men DO differ; psychologically as well as the physiologically. It's not true for everyone obviously, but especially in biology and psychology there's not an awful lot other than the basics that does really hold true in all cases. It's an average.[/QUOTE] [quote]Dr Marcia Collaer, a behavioural neuroscientist at Middlebury College in Vermont, says that the link between the angles task and navigation ability is not backed up with empirical evidence[/quote] [QUOTE=sltungle;45438056] It's scientific fact[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=pentium;45437888]Richmond apparently tried this but removed them because they discriminated against women. Bet you can't say that three times in a row. :v:[/QUOTE] You gotta remember the tones; good luck with getting it right even once.

They should have just labeled the parking spots with "Respectfully reserved for bad drivers"

[QUOTE=Taggart;45437624]I.... what? How exactly does being a woman suddenly make you vision impaired the second your vehicle nears the dreaded enemy known as the parking spot?[/QUOTE] Whenever we go below 10mph we get hallucinations of all the babies we haven't had. I hear Chinese women have it especially bad because they also hear the chorus of 'Lose Yourself'.

[QUOTE=SexualShark;45437605]i wanna make a joke but i know ill be banned for it [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Either take the risk and post the joke or don't post at all -- but this choice will always be worse" - Starpluck))[/highlight][/QUOTE] I don't want to derail this thread but I feel like this ban is kinda stupid.

[QUOTE=ZestyLemons;45439828]Wasn't there a rule in SH about "if you make a claim, you better have some evidence to back it up"? Yeah there's differences between men and women, but I doubt the whole "women can't drive" thing is just a myth.[/QUOTE] Perhaps you could also have bolded the section just before that too, then: [quote]the link between the angles task and navigation ability is not backed up with empirical evidence[/quote] Males outperform females in quite a variety of spacial awareness tasks (for example map reading, venturing to an unfamiliar location, etc, etc), however it's not known if that one certain test for spacial awareness ability (the angles task) is related to ones ability to navigate or not. Females also outperform males in a few of them, though (navigating with familiar landmarks for example). It's not an easy job to find which traits have causal links and which are merely correlated, and it's a hell of a lot harder to then determine WHY they're correlated. [QUOTE=Furioso;45441623]I've heard that in a similar vein, women have a better sense of smell on average than men. Has the performance of male and female drivers ever been tested scientifically to see if there's a legitimate difference?[/QUOTE] I remember seeing a Mythbusters episode in which they tested the myth that women were more likely to stop and ask for directions when lost. They intentionally gave the participants directions to follow to a certain location, but midway there there was a false instruction (to turn onto a road that doesn't exist or something to that effect). I think it turned out, from memory, that women are indeed more likely to ask for directions whereas men were more stubborn and had a habit of returning to where they started from and trying to navigate their way to their destination from the start again. Although I suppose that's less about driving and more about your ability to ask for help in general because they could just as easily have been walking or cycling a set route.

The females in my family are definitely worse drivers than the males. My sister is bad at driving large cars and my mom refuses to drive if there's like moderate traffic anywhere. I also tend to feel less secure if a female is at the wheel. More likely to panic in an emergency I've found.

That supposedly larger parking spot is tiny.

I can't back it up with a source or anything but I've heard that men generally have better 3D spacial awareness so we are more conscious of the car's position relative to the surroundings even when we can't see all of it.

[QUOTE=Dirf;45443168]I don't want to derail this thread but I feel like this ban is kinda stupid.[/QUOTE] It's very 2007, I appreciate the nostalgia of when bans like this were commonplace.

[QUOTE=pentium;45437888]Richmond apparently tried this but removed them because they discriminated against women. Bet you can't say that three times in a row. :v:[/QUOTE] Da shi jie da du hui Each word is one syllable. Da shir ji-eh da du hwei.

[QUOTE=BananaFoam;45442392]I have also heard women tend to have better eyesight or they see color more vibrantly, although now-a-days it matters for little since there are so many ways both genders can royally fuck up their eyes.[/QUOTE] It's not generally purely eyesight. Men ten to see motion better, women tend to see details better. And generally, the colour with the most difference between genders is red. Where women tend to be able to see significantly more shades than men on average. There's even a mutation for orange colour cones which happens more often in women than men.