Don’t shoot the messenger ladies! Annanova reports:
Sexual orientation ‘affects map reading skills’
Straight men are best at map reading and heterosexual women worst, according to a new study.
Researchers at the University of Warwick say sexual orientation, as well as gender, affects navigation skills, reports the Daily Telegraph. They claim straight men perform better at map reading than gay men who in turn perform better than lesbians, who in turn do better than straight women.
Data was taken from over 198,000 people aged 20-65 years (109,612 men and 88,509 women). Men outperformed women on tests such as mentally rotating objects and matching angles, while women outperformed men in verbal dexterity tests, and remembering the locations of objects.
So while men may be better at map reading, women are better at finding the car keys.
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I really knows how to read and navigate the map very well :) ….
That doesn’t mean that we CHOOSE to read the map more often ;)
So very true Kevin!
Brilliant comment. :-)
John