How Women Can Navigate
'If men didn't design maps that way, we wouldn't have to turn them upside down, ' many women complain. The British Cartography Society, however, reports that 50% of its members are female and that 50% of those who design and edit maps are also women. 'Map design is a two-dimensional task in which women are equally as capable as men, ' said leading British cartographer Alan Collinson. 'The difficulty that most women have is reading and navigating with the map because they need a three-dimensional perspective to navigate a route. I design tourist maps that have a three-dimen- sional perspective - they show trees, mountains and other landmarks. Women have much greater success with this type of map. Our tests show that men have the ability to turn a two-dimensional map into a three- dimensional view in their mind, but most women don't seem to be able to do this. '
"Women dramatically improve their navigational skills using perspective maps"
Another interesting finding has been that men score highly when navigating with a group leader who verbally tells them new directions at each point on a given route. Women, by contrast, perform abysmally when given verbal instructions. This shows how men can convert sound signals into three-dimensional mind maps to visualise the correct direction and route to take, whereas women perform better with a three- dimensional perspective map
How to Avoid an Argument
Men love to drive fast around winding roads because their spatial skills come into play - gear ratios, clutch and brake combinations, relative speed to corners, angles and distances. And they do it with the radio turned off. The modern male driver sits behind the wheel, hands his wife a map and asks her to navigate. With limited spatial ability she becomes silent and starts turning the map around and feels incompetent. Then she tries to identify something on the horizon that resembles something on the map. Most men don't understand that if you don't have specific areas in the brain for mental map rotation, you'll rotate it in your hands. It makes perfect sense to a woman to face a map in the direction she is travelling. For a man to avoid arguments, he should avoid asking a woman to read a map
"To have a happy life: Never insist that a woman read a map or street directory"
Having spatial ability on both sides of the brain inter- feres with a female's speech function, so if you give a woman a street directory, she'll stop talking before she turns it around. Give it to a man and he'll continue talking - but he'll also turn the radio off because he can't operate his hearing functions at the same time as his map-reading skills. That's why when a phone rings in his home he demands that everyone keeps quiet while he answers it. Women work out mathematical problems mainly in the left side of the brain which not only makes them slower at calculus but explains why so many women and girls perform mathematical functions aloud. Men everywhere shout, 'Would you mind calculating in your head please! I can't concentrate!' as they try to read their newspapers.
How to Argue While Driving
A husband who teaches his wife to drive is heading for the divorce courts. Men all around the world give the same instructions to women: 'Turn left - slow down! - change gears - watch out for those pedestrians - con- centrate - stop crying!' For a man, driving is a test of his spatial ability relative to the environment. For a woman, the purpose of driving is to get safely from point A to point B. A man's best strategy as a passenger is to close his eyes, turn up the radio and stop commentating because, overall, women are safer drivers than men. She'll get him there - it may just take a little longer, that's all. But at least he can relax and arrive alive. A woman will criticise a man's driving because his spatial ability allows him to make decisions and judge- ments that look dangerous to her. Provided he doesn't have a poor driving record, she also needs to relax and not criticise, and just let him do the driving. When the first drop of rain hits the windscreen, a woman imme- diately turns on the wipers, something men can never understand. A man's brain waits until the exact amount of raindrops are on the screen relative to the speed of the wipers and he turns the wipers on when the precise amount of time has passed. In other words, he uses spatial ability.
'If men didn't design maps that way, we wouldn't have to turn them upside down, ' many women complain. The British Cartography Society, however, reports that 50% of its members are female and that 50% of those who design and edit maps are also women. 'Map design is a two-dimensional task in which women are equally as capable as men, ' said leading British cartographer Alan Collinson. 'The difficulty that most women have is reading and navigating with the map because they need a three-dimensional perspective to navigate a route. I design tourist maps that have a three-dimen- sional perspective - they show trees, mountains and other landmarks. Women have much greater success with this type of map. Our tests show that men have the ability to turn a two-dimensional map into a three- dimensional view in their mind, but most women don't seem to be able to do this. '
"Women dramatically improve their navigational skills using perspective maps"
Another interesting finding has been that men score highly when navigating with a group leader who verbally tells them new directions at each point on a given route. Women, by contrast, perform abysmally when given verbal instructions. This shows how men can convert sound signals into three-dimensional mind maps to visualise the correct direction and route to take, whereas women perform better with a three- dimensional perspective map
How to Avoid an Argument
Men love to drive fast around winding roads because their spatial skills come into play - gear ratios, clutch and brake combinations, relative speed to corners, angles and distances. And they do it with the radio turned off. The modern male driver sits behind the wheel, hands his wife a map and asks her to navigate. With limited spatial ability she becomes silent and starts turning the map around and feels incompetent. Then she tries to identify something on the horizon that resembles something on the map. Most men don't understand that if you don't have specific areas in the brain for mental map rotation, you'll rotate it in your hands. It makes perfect sense to a woman to face a map in the direction she is travelling. For a man to avoid arguments, he should avoid asking a woman to read a map
"To have a happy life: Never insist that a woman read a map or street directory"
Having spatial ability on both sides of the brain inter- feres with a female's speech function, so if you give a woman a street directory, she'll stop talking before she turns it around. Give it to a man and he'll continue talking - but he'll also turn the radio off because he can't operate his hearing functions at the same time as his map-reading skills. That's why when a phone rings in his home he demands that everyone keeps quiet while he answers it. Women work out mathematical problems mainly in the left side of the brain which not only makes them slower at calculus but explains why so many women and girls perform mathematical functions aloud. Men everywhere shout, 'Would you mind calculating in your head please! I can't concentrate!' as they try to read their newspapers.
How to Argue While Driving
A husband who teaches his wife to drive is heading for the divorce courts. Men all around the world give the same instructions to women: 'Turn left - slow down! - change gears - watch out for those pedestrians - con- centrate - stop crying!' For a man, driving is a test of his spatial ability relative to the environment. For a woman, the purpose of driving is to get safely from point A to point B. A man's best strategy as a passenger is to close his eyes, turn up the radio and stop commentating because, overall, women are safer drivers than men. She'll get him there - it may just take a little longer, that's all. But at least he can relax and arrive alive. A woman will criticise a man's driving because his spatial ability allows him to make decisions and judge- ments that look dangerous to her. Provided he doesn't have a poor driving record, she also needs to relax and not criticise, and just let him do the driving. When the first drop of rain hits the windscreen, a woman imme- diately turns on the wipers, something men can never understand. A man's brain waits until the exact amount of raindrops are on the screen relative to the speed of the wipers and he turns the wipers on when the precise amount of time has passed. In other words, he uses spatial ability.
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