posted December 21, 2012 08:20 AM            

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Originally posted by LightofPluto:
I've been learning a lot about DNA and how our traits are passed on and i've started to realize that females are a bit superior in a lot of things.
For example, the x chromosome has more DNA and is more dominant than the y chromosome. Another interesting tidbit is that males are more likely to have problems like color blindness. Females have better peripheral vision as well and we have 52 types of body language while guys have only 10. Sorry guys, not trying to be mean, I just want to see people's opinions on this bit of info.

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posted December 24, 2012 01:53 PM            

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Originally posted by Randall:
Women tend to be able to multitask better than men.

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...a recent study proves otherwise ^^

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Working mothers may have to juggle more tasks than their husbands, but the long-held belief that women are better than men at multi-tasking is a myth, according to new Swedish research.

"On the contrary, the results of our study show that men are better at multi-tasking than women," Timo Mäntylä, a psychology professor at Stockholm University, said.

Men are sometimes better than women at handling multiple tasks simultaneously, but the performance gap is correlated to the female menstrual cycle, according to his study, to be published in US peer-reviewed journal Psychological Science.

In line with previous research, men and women with good so-called working memory were also better than others at multi-tasking.

However, Mäntylä found that the ability to combine several different tasks at once was also linked to spatial ability which, for women, is linked to their menstrual phase.

"Previous studies have shown that women's spatial skills vary across the menstrual cycle with high capacity around menstruation and much lower around ovulation, when estrogen levels are high," he said.

"The results showed a clear difference in multi-tasking between men and women in the ovulation phase, while this effect was eliminated for women in the menstrual phase."

The participants, 160 men and women between 20 and 43 years of age, were instructed to keep track of three digital "clocks", or counters, that displayed different times at different speeds.

While registering certain times displayed by the clocks, defined by a simple set of rules, they also had to watch a scrolling ticker featuring common Swedish names, pressing the mouse button when one of the names was repeated.

Differences in spatial ability and working memory were based on separate tests.

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...frankly, i find this subject (Why are women more advanced?) irrelevant - as mockingbird noticed (trolling type of subject). Each side is more advanced from a certain point of view - but there is something about women, something for which they deserve a lot of respect: even tho they're disadvantaged in terms of physical strength - they have better endurance and "bare a heavier cross than men..." i'm with George Carlin on this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7Akwy4pxF0 - which is why I respect women more than men, they got the short stick (maybe that's expect their man to have a long stick ^^) and still, they show "a lot of strength" ...and obviously - women are aware of that, which is why i heard this line ("wish i was born as a man") from woman more often than the opposite... mainly cause i don't know lots of gay people, but they're a very small minority among men. On the bright side - more pain leads to more pleasure - both sexually (orgasm related) and from a parental(mother) point of view... generally speaking - at least...

posted December 24, 2012 02:28 PM            

Jun 16th, 2009
By Amber Hensley

The differences between women and men are not only well-documented, but frequently at the heart of jokes, anecdotes, and good-natured (and not so good-natured) ribbing. Experts have discovered that there are actually differences in the way women’s and men’s brains are structured and in the way they react to events and stimuli. So the next time your wife, boyfriend, or parent starts telling you how you should have done something differently, then refer back to these big differences between men’s and women’s brains.

1. Human relationships. Women tend to communicate more effectively than men, focusing on how to create a solution that works for the group, talking through issues, and utilizes non-verbal cues such as tone, emotion, and empathy whereas men tend to be more task-oriented, less talkative, and more isolated. Men have a more difficult time understanding emotions that are not explicitly verbalized, while women tend to intuit emotions and emotional cues. These differences explain why men and women sometimes have difficulty communicating and why men-to-men friendships look different from friendships among women.

2. Left brain vs. both hemispheres. Men tend to process better in the left hemisphere of the brain while women tend to process equally well between the two hemispheres. This difference explains why men are generally stronger with left-brain activities and approach problem-solving from a task-oriented perspective while women typically solve problems more creatively and are more aware of feelings while communicating.

3. Mathematical abilities. An area of the brain called the inferior-parietal lobule (IPL) is typically significantly larger in men, especially on the left side, than in women. This section of the brain is thought to control mental mathematical ability, and probably explains why men frequently perform higher in mathematical tasks than do women. Interestingly, this is the same area of Einstein’s brain that was discovered to be abnormally large. The IPL also processes sensory information, and the larger right side in women allows them to focus on, "specific stimuli, such as a baby crying in the night."

4. Reaction to stress. Men tend to have a "fight or flight" response to stress situations while women seem to approach these situations with a "tend and befriend" strategy. Psychologist Shelley E. Taylor coined the phrase "tend and befriend" after recognizing that during times of stress women take care of themselves and their children (tending) and form strong group bonds (befriending). The reason for these different reactions to stress is rooted in hormones. The hormone oxytocin is released during stress in everyone. However, estrogen tends to enhance oxytocin resulting in calming and nurturing feelings whereas testosterone, which men produce in high levels during stress, reduces the effects of oxytocin.

5. Language. Two sections of the brain responsible for language were found to be larger in women than in men, indicating one reason that women typically excel in language-based subjects and in language-associated thinking. Additionally, men typically only process language in their dominant hemisphere, whereas women process language in both hemispheres. This difference offers a bit of protection in case of a stroke. Women may be able to recover more fully from a stroke affecting the language areas in the brain while men may not have this same advantage.

6. Emotions. Women typically have a larger deep limbic system than men, which allows them to be more in touch with their feelings and better able to express them, which promotes bonding with others. Because of this ability to connect, more women serve as caregivers for children. The down side to this larger deep limbic system is that it also opens women up to depression, especially during times of hormonal shifts such as after childbirth or during a woman’s menstrual cycle.

7. Brain size. Typically, men’s brains are 11-12% bigger than women’s brains. This size difference has absolutely nothing to do with intelligence, but is explained by the difference in physical size between men and women. Men need more neurons to control their greater muscle mass and larger body size, thus generally have a larger brain.

8. Pain. Men and women perceive pain differently. In studies, women require more morphine than men to reach the same level of pain reduction. Women are also more likely to vocalize their pain and to seek treatment for their pain than are men. The area of the brain that is activated during pain is the amygdala, and researchers have discovered that in men, the right amygdala is activated and in women, the left amygdala is activated. The right amygdala has more connections with areas of the brain that control external functions while the right amygdala has more connections with internal functions. This difference probably explains why women perceive pain more intensely than do men.

9. Spatial ability. Men typically have stronger spatial abilities, or being able to mentally represent a shape and its dynamics, whereas women typically struggle in this area. Medical experts have discovered that women have a thicker parietal region of the brain, which hinders the ability to mentally rotate objects–an aspect of spatial ability. Research has shown this ability in babies as young as 5 months old, negating any ideas that these abilities were strengthened by environmental influences.

posted December 24, 2012 02:39 PM            

Breakthrough Discovery of Brain Differences Between Men and Women. It also explains PMS!

Men and women are clearly different species. And this is more than just physical: it goes in all inner organs, including the brain, explaining behavioral differences but also the opposite desires, sensitivities, preferences...

The brain is masculinized from the womb by testosterone (its lack determines the feminization of the brain), generating anatomical differences that explain why the males find it harder to read
facial expressions than women do, but explain their higher ability to visualize objects in three dimensions or read maps, labyrinths and diagrams.

When it comes to women - the corpus callosum, the major white matter tract, connecting the two brain hemispheres, allowing their intercommunication - is much wider. That's why women have their brain functions more finely distributed, while men have a more "asymmetrical" brain, with more specialized areas and, for example, a lesion on the left hemisphere, which can induce speech loss, is more devastating for men. If the stroke is only on one side of the brain, a woman can rehabilitate, while the man may have more trouble with it, because the woman may be able to perform tasks using the other side of her brain. This also mean that men are more prone to senile dementia and the age-related decline is much steeper than in women.

But this also explains why women have better concrete thinking while men have a better abstract one (and are better at chess and composing music) and why women prefer to repeat loudly what they are learning while men must learn in silence. The female brain is 11 % lighter than the male brain, still IQ coefficients of the women are similar to those of the men. That's because men have less gray matter (that processes information) and more white matter (that transmits information). This explains why the female brain learns easier and men have more motor ability.

Women also express their emotions better, because their emotional thinking centers are close to the speech centers, so they can verbalize their emotions better. Men have a simpler limbic system, and their emotions are bound to action.

Researches revealed that gay men have a larger posterior corpus callosum than heterosexual men. This means that homosexuals have more "womenized" brains (as found also by tests exploring their behavioral skills), fact that could be explained by hormonal ratios and balances in the womb. This imbalance could have a genetic reason, but not necessarily.

A breakthrough in explaining a major cause of brain functioning in men and women has just been made at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet: why brain's serotonin (the neurotransmitter called "the happiness hormone") system is different between the sexes, making the women more prone to depression and chronic anxiety.

The team using a PET scanner found that that women have much more serotonin receptors (binding sites) in certain brain nuclei. They also have lower amounts of the protein transporting serotonin back into the neurons releasing it. This protein is blocked by most of the antidepressants (SSRIs). The research will be presented in a doctoral thesis of Hristina Jovanovic at the end of February.

"We don't know exactly what this means, but the results can help us understand why the occurrence of depression differs between the sexes and why men and women sometimes respond differently to treatment with antidepressant drugs," said lead researcher Anna-Lena Nordstrom, associate professor.

The serotonin system in healthy women was also found to be different from that possessed by women with severe premenstrual mental symptoms, in whom the serotonin system is not so flexible in responding to the hormone changes of the menstrual cycle as in PMS free women.

posted December 24, 2012 07:31 PM            

7. Brain size. Typically, men’s brains are 11-12% bigger than women’s brains. This size difference has absolutely nothing to do with intelligence, but is explained by the difference in physical size between men and women. Men need more neurons to control their greater muscle mass and larger body size, thus generally have a larger brain.

...and even what you posted sustains the theory about men being capable at mufti-tasking:

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1. Human relationships. Women tend to communicate more effectively than men, focusing on how to create a solution that works for the group, talking through issues, and utilizes non-verbal cues such as tone, emotion, and empathy whereas men tend to be more task-oriented, less talkative, and more isolated. Men have a more difficult time understanding emotions that are not explicitly verbalized, while women tend to intuit emotions and emotional cues. These differences explain why men and women sometimes have difficulty communicating and why men-to-men friendships look different from friendships among women.

2. Left brain vs. both hemispheres. Men tend to process better in the left hemisphere of the brain while women tend to process equally well between the two hemispheres. This difference explains why men are generally stronger with left-brain activities and approach problem-solving from a task-oriented perspective while women typically solve problems more creatively and are more aware of feelings while communicating.

9. Spatial ability. Men typically have stronger spatial abilities, or being able to mentally represent a shape and its dynamics, whereas women typically struggle in this area. Medical experts have discovered that women have a thicker parietal region of the brain, which hinders the ability to mentally rotate objects–an aspect of spatial ability. Research has shown this ability in babies as young as 5 months old, negating any ideas that these abilities were strengthened by environmental influences.

But this also explains why women have better concrete thinking while men have a better abstract one (and are better at chess and composing music) and why women prefer to repeat loudly what they are learning while men must learn in silence.

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...i haven't read this article before - i did knew some of the things mentioned above but "not in scientific terms and such detailed explanation" - so, doesn't hurt knowing more - i guess... yet, i don't know whom i can share it with - both men and women pretend to listen, even if their not interested - yet, when it comes to men it's more obvious "during the conversation" wile woman are better at pretending - but, you can catch them in the end by "asking details from what I've talked abpit"... sometimes they try, other times - they smile (that innocent smile) and then there are those time when they hit me with the "geek line (u're such a geek)". ^^

posted December 24, 2012 09:16 PM            

"However, Mäntylä found that the ability to combine several different tasks at once was also linked to spatial ability which, for women, is linked to their menstrual phase."

I'm also a man - but i was being objective, that part about my own experience, my own practice - was related to my experience and knowledge about those who play certain RTS/RPG title which are heavily multitasking based.

- some examples:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmYhX8fjmo8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xRDdBL4aWc

...not sure if you like games or not, or which type of genre but RTS stands for "real time strategy" - wile above game is one of the most famous titles, as in "Starcraft". In that game you have a certain type of race under your control and that implies:

-mining, aka - spamming clones and constructing specific buildings
-controlling multiple type of units, each type assigned to a specific numpad
-scouting the map
-rush attack/tactical attack
...and so on.

The more you advance in game - the more units you have under your control, different type of units - each capable of a certain task... plus building construction. This type of games are heavily based on multitasking - the more capable you are at it - the faster you advance, the better you are. Professional gamers are capable of 200+ "actions per minute" - to achieve that level of multitasking as can be seen in above videos (those are capable of 300 ^^).

Very few people are that good, which might be related to this: http://mashable.com/2012/08/13/multitasking-infographic/ - on the other hand women might be better at multitasking around the house, that if one of those task implies "their kids" - because they're instinctively more advanced from an emotional point of view than men. It's more likely for a men to loose their kid wile talking with someone than for a woman... .

posted December 24, 2012 09:55 PM            

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Originally posted by aquaguy91:
why women always use big fancy words that aquaguy no understand?

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because they try to win arguments by confusing men... that and - they try to be/look sophisticated... it's kinda like the clothes they wear - in arguments they dress with words. ^^

compartmentalize/compartmentalization - place every piece in a specific compartment