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- Lixie, on 10/12/2007, -2/+99^Forgot to mention that research was done on rats.
- catalysis, on 10/12/2007, -5/+84I thought we were not supposed to say men are better at math.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+80"Men's brains are larger"
Borat was right? ... Veteran Feminists of America will not be happy... - ClassicJBC, on 10/12/2007, -6/+78"6. The average man will think about sex approximately once a minute, while the average woman will think of sex around once every few days."
Really tired of seeing this one. It's just not possible.
http://www.snopes.com/science/stats/thinksex.asp
Common sense should be enough to debunk this one. Hell, I don't care if you show me a scan of my brain and say the "sex parts" are lit up all the time. I know damn well I don't think about sex that often. - violentlymickey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+69 The Male Brain vs The Female Brain
Sunday, April 1, 2007
Some interesting differences between men's and women's brains, collected from sources listed below. Read with a grain of salt, and further investigate the ones that get you riled up.
1. Men's brains are larger, but as they age, they also shrink faster than women's brains.
2. Women's brains operate at a higher temperature, due to burning more glucose.
3. Women use more of their brains when they think.
4. In general, men are better at math and women are better at language skills. This is suggested by research on the brain that has found that the "gray matter" in men's brains is more active during thought while the "white matter" in women's brains is more active. Gray matter is the unscientific name for the part of the brain that handles information processing, and white matter is made up of the parts that network information together to understand relationships among pieces of data.
5. Perhaps due to the previous point, men tend to score an average of 5 points higher on intelligence tests. (Unexamined, however, is whether such tests are geared disproportionately toward mathematical and other straightforward problem-solving, or even whether most IQ tests are created by men.)
6. The average man will think about sex approximately once a minute, while the average woman will think of sex around once every few days.
7. Why do women always want to talk? Researchers have found that connecting with another through talking will trigger the pleasure centers in a woman's brain, a high second only to an orgasm.
8. Baby girls have been observed to typically have stronger reactions than boys to disturbing or distressful sounds.
9. A 20-second hug will trigger the release of oxytocin in a woman's brain. The effect of this chemical will often give the woman a feeling of trust in the person hugging her.
10. Men reportedly use less words per day than women. Depending on which study you believe (if any), the "word gap" can be anywhere from 1,000 to 10,000 words a day.
Sources: Sex on the Brain, Deborah Blum; The Female Brain, Louann Brizendine; University of California, Brown University and University of New Mexico research; www.tmcnet.com; www.quazen.com - Vladk1000, on 10/12/2007, -4/+69Borat: "But is it not a problem that a woman have a smaller brain than a man?"
- Lixie, on 10/12/2007, -2/+60Male neurological processes tend to be regional to certain areas of the brain, while many similar tasks in females tend to be global processes. Men typically use the Inferior Parietal Lobe in the left hemisphere exclusively when performing math and logic cognitive processes.
This article doesn't address a key item when defining male and female brains. It's not the chromosomes of the genes that determine brain structure. Rather hormone influence during early development is the strongest influencing factor in how a brain develops and functions. Researchers have been able to give females 'male' brains with testosterone therapy, and have been able to produce males with 'female' brains by preventing the influence of testosterone during early development. - MyNameIsJoe, on 10/12/2007, -1/+57"6. The average man will think about sex approximately once a minute, while the average woman will think of sex around once every few days."
I don't know about you, but I only think about sex once a day. The thought just lasts the entire day. - kingkool68, on 10/12/2007, -1/+46Hmmm a 20 second hug/ talking are pleasurable like an orgasm? No wonder cuddling comes after sex.
- LGod, on 10/12/2007, -0/+43A 20 second hug? That seems awfully long for casual type hugs. I would think if you are in a position where you can hug that person for that long, then I would think you have already gained their trust.
... or I smell. - hexalite, on 10/12/2007, -3/+44***** that, my ***** language skills are ***** brilliant!
- bitt3n, on 10/12/2007, -1/+39wrong. he suggested that it is possible that the intelligence bell curve for men is broader than for women, meaning that it is possible that more outliers are men, ie, men are more likely to be extremely smart or extremely dumb. He did not say this is definitely true, and he did not say men are on average smarter.
- rasterbator, on 10/12/2007, -3/+38"6. The average man will think about sex approximately once a minute, while the average woman will think of sex around once every few days."
6. The average woman will think about shopping once every minute, while the average man will think of shopping once every few months. - Light0, on 10/12/2007, -4/+35random facts with no proof, citations or references. terrible article.
- jayhawk88, on 10/12/2007, -1/+30Haven't a lot of these been debunked as urban myths or old wives tales also? I'm thinking particularly about the "Men think about sex..." one.
- berwiki, on 10/12/2007, -4/+33If 'every few days' = 3
That I means I think about sex 4,320 times before a woman thinks about it once. Uhhh...i've been VAGINA to the bar on friday night. Everyone is there for the same reason. There's no possible TITTIES way to believe something like this. - vince916, on 10/12/2007, -0/+29I wish #4 wasnt true. It's a sausagefest everday in my engineering classes. :(
- mt066, on 10/12/2007, -0/+25"Hey you come here................ah! Wait.....5 more seconds....annnnd.....OK 20 seconds....jeez stop screaming so much. So let's go back to my place! .....Why are you running away??"
- mcraigw, on 10/12/2007, -2/+27
What sex?? - rnwen2750, on 10/12/2007, -2/+27I think I will pass on letting a site like that tell me about neurology. Thanks.
- mcraigw, on 10/12/2007, -0/+23"Men usually only speak when they have something to say. Women can talk for no reason at all."
Have you ever read the comments on Digg? - mcraigw, on 10/12/2007, -1/+24
No, you just have to hold on real tight. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20"9. A 20-second hug will trigger the release of oxytocin in a woman's brain. The effect of this chemical will often give the woman a feeling of trust in the person hugging her."
So hug her BEFORE selling her your used car. - banderbe, on 10/12/2007, -7/+26This is just misogynistic propaganda.
/sarcasm
And didn't Larry Summers lose his job for making comments similar to this?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Summers - crunchyeyeball, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19I've never understood why people get offended by the suggestion that men tend to have larger brains than women. After all, men tend to be larger than women in general. Men tend to be taller, wider, and heavier. Men tend to be larger full stop. Seems reasonable to assume that if we tend to be larger in general, we will tend to have larger heads and larger brains. Of course, this in no way implies greater intelligence, after all, the animal with the largest brain is the Blue Whale, but we don't assume one is about to challenge Gary Kasparov anytime soon. Men tend to be larger because we don't have the additional complexity and biological overhead needed to maintain a life-support system for a new human being for 9 months.
- mobialflow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16I disagree with #6. I must think about sex (consciously) at least 30-40 times a day. What was the sample for this study, teenage boys and senior women?
- basichuman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16It also helps if you're not trying to hug random women.
- Jugalator, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16Well, if you think about sex every minute, I'm not sure you'd get a job where I work at least. :-p
I can't believe how that myth has even gone so far as to become a myth. - PBaltazar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Artist Rendering of Functions/Area in Female Brain:
http://static.flickr.com/44/155110157_0891d72744_o.gif
and here is the Male's Brain by the same artist
http://static.flickr.com/53/155110158_2b0051df77_o.gif - HarryBauzonia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10"The average man will think about sex approximately once a minute, while the average woman will think of sex around once every few days."
Gotta call B.S. on that one. Any guy that horny and any woman that frigid is not average.......unless they only polled 16 year-old boys and 45 year-old married women. - sid0, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13bitt3n: Then why was he ousted? Was it just political correctness?
- SavageGeek, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Buried. "The average man will think about sex approximately once a minute, while the average woman will think of sex around once every few days." This is urban legend.
http://www.snopes.com/science/stats/thinksex.asp - phmfthacim, on 10/12/2007, -5/+14this article has a lot of ***** up ***** in it
- offwithyourtv, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I also call ***** on #6. And I'm also female. (omg girls on teh internets? no wai!) Yes. I just double-checked for you. Definitely female.
@aegisgfx
There are plenty of us who don't think Brad Pitt is sexy and think it's weird to fantasize about celebrities. - DoKtur, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8real male brain
http://www.hanfburg.de/forum/userforum/uploads/male_brain.gif
:-) - chicken101, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11Go ahead and insinuate that mean don't have brains. Afterall, we have einstein, gauss, newton, Pauling, hawkings etc etc...
- fani, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Agree. But they're not "facts"....more like random "statements"
- CreativeSpaz, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12WTF I'm a girl and I think about sex every 5 seconds.
I call *****. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10"WTF I'm a girl and I think about sex every 5 seconds. I call *****."
Yeah, but only sex with Brad Pitt or someone similar. I call ***** too. - madm0nk, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9I'll have to agree with classicjbc .... I have asked many different girls whether they honestly think that men think about sex more than men, and I get the same response everytime ..... no. All of them said they think about sex and/or affection quite a bit throughout the day. And furthermore, girls get more out of sex than men do, I don't know about you guys but I have never had a 15 minute orgasm, more like 15 seconds.
- fwib, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8people got upset at what he said, because they thought that by entertaining the hypothesis that there are more men in upper end of the distribution curve due to innate brain differences, he was in fact endorsing the hypothesis. additionally, people thought he was speaking as the president of the university, when he was speaking as an academic in a symposium.
- mt066, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Hey that's my mom you're talking to
- silverchrysalis, on 10/12/2007, -8/+14only 29 diggs and a 503 already?
wonder which brain got the hosting... - Kitsune818, on 10/12/2007, -1/+723) 56% of the time, the Male brain is more apt to believe total falsehoods and out of context junk statistics if they are presented with an air of credibility and random untraceable sources.
This is total unmitigated *****. Time and again, the numbers for these sorts of "facts" turn out to be statistically meaningless (tiny sample pools, poorly formatted or heavily biased collection). Even if you buy into their validity, how are they factoring in the difference in social impact of the genders?
Sorry folks, as much as you'd like science to explain your SO's bizarre behavior, the truth is we're all fairly similar sacs of meat and fluid with different distributions of body fat. - mcraigw, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6
Women typically have smaller bodies than men too.
Actually, blue whales have huge brains, but they aren't measurably more intelligent than a dolphin, or certainly a human. If you are using brain size to judge intelligence, then you need to measure brain mass to body mass ratio, then humans come out on top. I would guess that using that type of measurement would pretty much equalize men and women in that respect. - offwithyourtv, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Seriously! Not only do I find #6 to be false based on personal experience and the fact that I paid attention in my psychology of human sexuality class, but if anyone reads #7 and believes it, it wouldn't make sense at all. It's like saying "Women rarely think about sex," and then saying "women like talking almost as much as they like sex." With that, given the 'evidence' in #10, you'd think the statistics would say that women never stop thinking about sex, which would be, for some of us, considerably closer to accurate.
- fatpads, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6"Men reportedly use less words per day than women."
Sources: Sex on the Brain, Deborah Blum; The Female Brain, Louann Brizendine
It's FEWER. We may not use as many but at least they're not wrong. - Jelfish, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I disagree with many of these points as they relate directly to the brain. Many of them are generalizations based on behavior. Men may use more gray brain matter and women may use more white brain matter, but is there a difference in size or ability of use? Is this true across cultures, even ones where it is not more common for women to have social jobs and men to have science/engineering ones? IQ certainly has nothing to do with a physical brain as people who are educated and familiar with the test will do better. The one about the girl babies being more affected by noises, though still indirect, at least poses the possibility that a difference can be seen before they are socialized into gender roles.
I would have been interested in something more physiological - something that is more conclusive about an intrinsic difference between the male and female brain, rather than mostly very weak and trivial circumstantial evidence. - mutatron, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Hey, sources _are_ listed... all four of them.
- sigsegfalt, on 10/12/2007, -6/+11"2. Women's brains operate at a higher temperature, due to burning more glucose.
3. Women use more of their brains when they think.
5. ...men tend to score an average of 5 points higher on intelligence tests.
10. Men reportedly use less words per day than women. Depending on which study you believe (if any), the "word gap" can be anywhere from 1,000 to 10,000 words a day."
Is it fair to say that, on average, mens' brains are more efficient? -
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