Girls vs. Guys

[Benderino]

I got in a little tiff with a lady-friend of mine. I asserted that males had better hand-eye coordination (with no evidence) and she immediately disagreed, holding that the sexes were equal in that regard. Does anyone know anything on this topic, whther to dispell my myth, or to prove it correct? I think it's interesting, and it can help with bragging rights for many years down the road.

 

[cgannon64]

I'm pretty sure men have more muscle mass, at least.

 

[IceBlaZe]

I know that girls are considered better at multi-tasking.

 

[h4ppy]

Most violent crimes are committed by men.

 

[stratego]

The truth is always somewhere in the middle. You claim that males are better in that aspect while she can only claim that male and female are equal. If we were truly equal, she would claim that female have better hand-eye coordination.

 

[WillJ]

My biology teacher told us that males do indeed have better hand-eye coordination, and that she suspects it's because we play more video games and sports.

I have yet to see a scientific article on it, though.

 

[SeleucusNicator]

Males have been scientifically proven to be better at parking cars. Saw it on the Discovery channel.

 

[EdwardTking]

Benderino, it depends

On the large scale; such as throwing a spear at a deer; men tend to be better; ie. an average of 100 men very slightly better than average 100 women; but at the small scale; e.g. threading a needle women are better than men.

 

[IceBlaZe]

Are you looking for innate differences or environmental differences?

 

[Serpico]

Google is your friend...

"Women pilots have an accident rate four times higher than men pilots because of their impaired hand/eye coordination.", according to http://christianparty.net/sex.htm

However, this site also states that "A profound intellectual gap causes a huge difference between the sexes in how they vote.", "It takes up to 8 1/2 men workers to compensate for the loss of productivity of one unwanted woman worker.", and many other, um, interesting things, my favorite being the groundbreaking revelation: "Forty million women and no men have had abortions since Roe vs. Wade."

Ah, well.

http://www.math.luc.edu/ethics96/papers/caftori.txt tells us that at least "Boys are more attracted to action-oriented, competitive games and
software requiring hand-eye coordination"

And http://www.fathersforlife.org/dale/genetic.html finally says "The results could also be interpreted to add the massive body of evidence which suggests that rejection by male peers because of lack of hand/eye coordination contributes to a need for masculine acceptance and affirmation, and that this need leads to same-sex attraction. It is also possible that hand/eye coordination is developed through early play experiences with the father and therefore that a boy who did not have interaction with the father would be more prone to lack the experiences which would grow those parts of the brain which control hand/eye coordination.

Hall, J., Kimure, D. (1995) Sexual orientation and performance on sexually dimorphic motor tasks. Archives of Sexual Behavior. 24, 4: 395-407.

"Heterosexual men outperformed heterosexual women, whereas gay men threw less accurately and lesbians tended to throw more accurately than their heterosexual counterparts. Differences in sports history or hand strength did not account for these effects."
"Pegboard scores found no interaction or main effect of sexual orientation, but the effect of sex was significant. Regardless of sexual orientation, women outperformed men and this difference remained significant even when a measure of finger size was partialed out. this study provides new evidence suggesting an association between sexual orientation and motor-performance profiles."
"The results of the study are consistent with the notion that early hormones mediate changes in neural functioning that underlie both sexual and nonsexual behaviors in humans. More specifically, the study adds evidence that sexual orientation and motor/cognitive predispositions have early biological contributions."

 

[Benderino]

Originally posted by SeleucusNicator
Males have been scientifically proven to be better at parking cars. Saw it on the Discovery channel.

Hey! I saw that too

@Serpico: Thanks.

@WillJ: The topic of video games actually was discussed, and I said that's why boys played more video games--because we had better hand-eye coordination. She contested that boys were only better at them because they played more, and that girls were just as good if they practiced as much.

 

[Xen]

Originally posted by SeleucusNicator
Males have been scientifically proven to be better at parking cars. Saw it on the Discovery channel.

 

[Shadylookin]

in most studies men are usually pysically stronger, but in the long run women usually are biologically stronger(2 x chromosomes really help)

 

[Achinz]

It's a coincidence that I happen to browse through a new book in our state library recently on this very topic. It's entitled "The Essential Difference - Men, Women and the Extreme Male Brain" by Simon Baron-Cohen and postulates that women score more hightly on the "Empathy" scale and men on the "Systematizing" one. Google for more info.

Don't know if hand-eye coordination fits into systematizing but spatial ability sure does. Women are supposed to be better at reading body language and at multitasking than men.

 

[The Last Conformist]

The supposed difference wrt multitasking was very popular among feminists/female supremacists back home a few years ago. Then some guy hit on the idea that if that's true, then women ought do more household chores because they'll multitask and need no more time to do it than men need for their fewer tasks. Since then most women I know hate to hear about their superior multitasking abilities.

 

[LesCanadiens]

Originally posted by IceBlaZe
I know that girls are considered better at multi-tasking.

Hardly.

Woman + car + cell phone = extreme likelihood of accident.

 

[Achinz]

Originally posted by LesCanadiens
Hardly.

Woman + car + cell phone = extreme likelihood of accident.

But

Man + car + cell phone = >extreme likelihood of accident.

 

[stratego]

Originally posted by LesCanadiens


Almost,

Woman + car = extreme likelihood of accident.

 

[Maj]

I remember reading somewhere that hand-eye coordination isn't innate but developed during infancy and childhood (and throughout adulthood, although to a less degree). Young boys are more likely than young girls to engage in activities involving intense interaction between their bodies and their vision. With increased practice and experience they'll form the large portion of men who have hand-eye coordination superior to that of most women.

There are some mental tasks men excel at and others women dominate, in general. For instance, men are better able to rotate 2D and 3D objects in their mind; the chief reason why men have a better sense of direction than women. If you want a plus for women, they can pick out and remember more details than men, making them choice witnesses for investigators.

 

[Archer 007]

This topic is teaching me alot.