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- TheBifman, on 06/29/2009, -12/+73You know what else women are better at? My laundry.
- jonnyeuchre, on 06/29/2009, -1/+59This is because:
A) Men want to drive the nail in with one hit
B) Women just want to hit the nail.
The two groups have completely different objectives and cannot be compared. - MooseOfReason, on 06/29/2009, -2/+59"... in the dark, men did better."
You're damn right! - jaytek13, on 06/29/2009, -2/+43A new study find scientists have too much time on their hands.
- ShoeString73, on 06/29/2009, -1/+32i just realized this the other day while fixing my fence: after almost 36 years on this planet i hammer like an 11 year old girl with mild depth perception issues. i'm missing nails, bending nails, hitting my thumb and cussing so much that i am frightening the neighbours. i suck at hammering.
so i went to a hardware store and bought a box of screws, a drill and drilled that fence like a ***** man. - pingpants, on 06/28/2009, -7/+38Hilarious headline, mikeinto.
- sTiKyt, on 06/29/2009, -4/+24Which is why you'll never move out of your moms basement
- inactive, on 06/29/2009, -2/+21I don't know - my friend's mom seems to think I'm pretty good at nailing her in the broad daylight in the back yard.
- PenguinShogun, on 06/29/2009, -1/+19Gee I wonder why men have an easier time guiding a long cylindrical object into a hole in the dark? lol
- JasPruett, on 06/29/2009, -7/+23And making sammiches!
- brad3378, on 06/29/2009, -0/+15The winner is the scientist who actually got paid to produce this study.
- raf12345, on 06/29/2009, -1/+15women nail it in the light(10% better), men nail it in the dark 20% better). Who is the winner?
- azpat, on 06/29/2009, -1/+15someone got paid to study this *****? I clearly work too hard (he says while posting to digg from work)
- archimago42, on 06/29/2009, -0/+11Those scientists are terrible at theorizing. Men definitely use force over accuracy when nailing which makes them miss slightly more and then in the dark they aren't totally retarded so they switch to being accurate to avoid breaking all their fingers. As a result, men do better in the dark because they naturally have better coordination and are now focusing on accuracy.
Simple. - brad3378, on 06/29/2009, -0/+11Or you could buy a nail gun
- coastiefish, on 06/29/2009, -0/+10Hilarious headline, Robert Roy Britt.
- jezsik, on 06/29/2009, -2/+12Did anyone else read the headline as "When Hammering Women, Nail It"?
I need more sleep. - Pxtl, on 06/29/2009, -0/+9This. If you're making something for yourself, just use farking screws. Leave the nails to guys trying to cut corners on projects they're doing on other people's houses.
And don't cheap out on the screws either. - ROBINEW, on 06/29/2009, -0/+7A carpenter's dream.....
Flat as a board and easy to nail. - ryeguy1, on 06/29/2009, -3/+9How did nails get into the kitchen?
- loconet, on 06/29/2009, -0/+6Ah, the comma - what a powerful little thing. Placed in the wrong spot and it can change so much.
- inactive, on 06/29/2009, -0/+5That was actually just an assumption made by the submitter based on the results of the article. If you had read it then you'd know that the study measured hammering accuracy under different conditions.
- blackmcgrath, on 06/29/2009, -10/+15Good...After you're done making my sandwich YOU can repair the closet...
- Aleas, on 06/29/2009, -0/+5Scientist: Hey, we need volunteers for this experiment.
You: Sure, I'll do it! What do I need to do?
Scientist: Take this hammer and nail and go and hammer it into that block of wood. In pitch darkness.
You: OK!
Thump Thump Thump FU**! - jknevitt, on 06/29/2009, -2/+7I totally read this headline as "When Hammering Women, Nail It" and thought it was a Men's Health article.
- osteor10, on 06/29/2009, -1/+6depends how hot she is.
- TexMexRex, on 06/29/2009, -2/+7As I have been taught, women are better at some things than me, and we should acknowledge and respect that. However Men are not better at anything than woman, and to say so or to imply it is illegal, immoral, and puts your future at risk. The nailing things in the dark portion of this test was obviously biased.
- emjaymj, on 06/29/2009, -0/+4due*
- davidlow, on 06/29/2009, -1/+5Women have different strengths in their vision than men. Women are much more likely to get night blindness at an earlier age, but they do tend to see colors more vividly (in the light). Just think about what age people generally are when they start to say, "I don't like driving at night." With women that happens years earlier.
- pyro0, on 06/29/2009, -0/+3dugg for making fun of yourself, before anyone else could.
- Rudegar, on 06/29/2009, -0/+3I want riddick eyes just to be able to DIY when it's pitch-black
- chongli, on 06/29/2009, -1/+4I'm pretty skeptical about this study. They should've measured the amount of force and instructed the subjects to use different controlled amounts of force.
You cannot draw valid conclusions from a study without controlling the variables. - limbride, on 06/29/2009, -0/+3If a carpenter hits his thumb more than once a year he's no carpenter :P
First hit: you hold the nail and hit it once to fasten it so that you don't have to hold it any more and can start rummaging your pocket for the next nail.
Second hit: You hit it hard! You can drive it down on this hit or....
Third hit: If the result has to look good you might need a third more controlled hit to finish it off neatly and without dents..
So the rule of thumb is: Fasten the nail with a modest first hit and your can go ape on it after you move your fingers out of the way :) - inactive, on 06/29/2009, -0/+3Women have better fine motor skills.
This shouldn't be news. - bosco84, on 06/29/2009, -0/+3The "National Institutes of Health" paid for it.
So... we all paid for this.
It's a good thing too, imagine what would happen if we didn't know who hammers in the dark bett- FOR ***** SAKES STOP WASTING MY MONEY - emjaymj, on 06/29/2009, -0/+2HI, BILLY MAYS HERE, AND TODAY I'M OFFERING THE MOST IMPORTANT PRODUCT I'VE EVER ENDORSED - A CALENDAR. BECAUSE ALL CAPS DAY IS OVER *****.
- SuperStromboli, on 06/29/2009, -0/+2I was just thinking the same thing.
- KingGorilla, on 06/29/2009, -0/+2They may be better at hammering nails but they can't assemble furniture
- pbhj, on 06/29/2009, -1/+3There's no point hitting the nail unless you hit it hard enough to knock it in. Angle of attack is important too. Perhaps men hit less but when they do hit have more force and accuracy of angle. Women hit more but don't actually nail in the nail, not straight at least.
I've never seen a woman using a hammer and not cringed, tappity-tappity-tappity [nail not moving]. When you watch a man you tend to flinch, thwack-thwack- sod it! -thwack-thwack [3 nails pwned, one of them a thumbnail]. - Lefts, on 06/29/2009, -0/+2Women, because who the hell is hammering in the dark?
- Latigoliath, on 06/29/2009, -0/+2Don't researchers have anything better to research?
- homercles337, on 06/29/2009, -0/+2Have you ever seen a woman hammer? They choke up on the damn thing so much that it will take them about a million hits to drive a nail. Accuracy means nothing when your hammering ONE nail all day long.
- InetRoadkill, on 06/29/2009, -1/+3I agree. Woman tend to tap nails. Men swing with emphasis on brute force rather than accuracy.
- mogebier, on 06/29/2009, -0/+2Did my tax dollars help pay for this "study"? I hope not, the country is in enough crap without funding stupid studies like this.
- MooseOfReason, on 06/29/2009, -0/+2Give credit where it's actually do.
http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/090628-men- ... - d3dm, on 06/29/2009, -0/+2100% Dugg. As someone who framed houses during the summers to put myself through college, if you're hitting your thumb you don't know how to use a hammer.
The "rule of thumb" is that you don't have your thumb anywhere near the nail once you've started the nail into the board. Leaving your hand near the nail as you drive it is just asking for trouble.
I'd like to see men vs. women drive a 16d nail into a 2x4 while wearing a blindfold. That should tell you if it's a difference in our visual systems or not.
- emjaymj, on 06/29/2009, -0/+1What Lefts said...
We have a pretty ubiquitous technology these days called the lightbulb. There aren't a whole lot of times where you'll be required to hammer in the dark. - freakFlag, on 06/29/2009, -0/+1I have been working, since February, taking the basement from brick and concrete to finished walls, subfloor and suspended ceiling. Several times while trying to get the angle right with nails, I had to lean in backwards, bending about 20 degrees, and hammer upside down while holding a board and a nail in place.
- Pxtl, on 06/29/2009, -0/+1Well, you can still give yourself a good whack during the "fastening" part, particularly if you're inexperienced or working from an odd angle.
- falstaff, on 06/29/2009, -0/+1I built my shed with nails, but the inside is all done with screws. Much easier to take apart and reconfigure.
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