Stereotypes about the superior color sense of women may well be rooted in genetics. Brian Verrelli, a researcher at the Biodesign Institute at ASU, is co-collaborator on a study suggesting that natural genetic selection has provided women with a frequent ability to better discriminate between colors than men.
Stereotypes about the superior color sense of women may well be rooted in genetics. Brian Verrelli, a researcher at the Biodesign Institute at ASU, is co-collaborator on a study suggesting that natural genetic selection has provided women with a frequent ability to better discriminate between colors than men.
And in breaking news, an alternate,one-man study just revealed that men just really don't give a crap about color sense.
Some researchers have also found out that men have better sense of forms than woman. So maybe we are on the same level.
But we must not forget that thease results are based on averges with big variations.
We are all individuals not just part of a large group which we can call men or woman or black or white or what ever.
i think that researcher needs to find something better to do with their time!!
I'm sure this was started as a lighthearted topic but Martin's comment (quoted above) concerns me as a view that has taken hold more recently. Discover magazine (//www.discover.com/) ran an article in the August edition (vol 25 number 8) entitle "Forbidden Science" in the author notes recent political pressure placed to stop "pure research" grants. I think its worth noting that (1) research is profitable for collateral learning as much as for studying the topic and (2) study of a topic does not imply endorsement of the topic. It seems that agencies such as the CDC (Centers for Disease Control) and NIH (National Institute of Health) among others have noticed a trend towards groups of people who have no in-depth scientific training or experience trying to apply political pressure or social shame to leaders who support research for studies in things like social webs linking truck drivers and sexually transmitted disease (STD's).
Research like this is important because ignorance of the vectors through with diseases like HIV and AIDs infect a population are the major contributors to growth of the infection. Truck drivers who were married fathers in Africa have been proven to historically be one of the largest causes of the spread of HIV and AIDs in Africa. In America there is an underground culture that follows truck drivers and fetishizes (or makes sex symbols) out of truck drivers. Now I don't endorse that people do that or that they practice non-protected sex with truck drivers (both men and women appear to do this) but I do strongly support that researchers are allowed to spend time in the areas that they find important so that we can collectively benefit not only from their findings but from the collateral information that is produced. I support this for medicine as well as defense projects (kinda like we all benefit from the Internet because the American military took something that scholars around the world were trying to utilize but just didnt' have the infrstructure to make work).
BTW, I'm glad women have smaller feet; they're cuter.
It maybe true! My wife has a better sense of smell too. So, she hands me the little one with the poopie diaper or tells me that the frig. has to be cleaned, I luckily, I guess, I can't smell those fine odors. So early man hunted and early women knew if it was rotten by the time the man got back. lol Van
Then we could dress alike. Mmmmm mmmmm. Now that sounds . . . weird
but fun
I tell you where women have an unfair advantage. Ya'll wear buckles and snaps and elasticized things that hook to other things and you practice that stuff for years. We menfolk are basically lookin for one thing and you all use those contraptions to hinder us and, thus, we become confused. Smell, taste, color sensitivity . . . they all suffer as we become frustrated in our pursuit of . . . oh wait . . . my wife is calling me . . . BRB
