While all human brains consist of the same material—
about 40 percent gray matter and 60 percent white matter—
the brain of a man is significantly different from that
of a woman From studies conducted using intelligence
tests, it has been determined that men use nearly seven
times more gray matter than women do, whereas women
use nine times more white matter than men do The main
functions of gray matter seem to lie in the disciplines of
spatial awareness, including map-reading, mathematics
and problem-solving, whereas white matter connects the
processing centers of the brain and is important in the use
of language, emotional thinking and the ability to do more
than one thing at once
Because women use more white brain matter, they tend
to be better communicators In fact, the female brain has
a greater number of areas associated with communication
than the male brain does, which explains why women tend
to use language as an emotional rapport-building device
whereas men use language to exchange information and
solve problems On average, a woman says 7,000 words per
day while a man says only 2,000.
The two hemispheres of the female brain are also linked
more effectively than those of the male brain, and they’re
more closely connected, which explains how women are
better able to multitask than men, who generally have to
concentrate on one job at a time This greater connectivity
in the female brain is also thought to be the reason for socalled
women’s intuition
These differences are thought to have been brought
about by the social roles adopted by men and women in
our ancestors’ time Men, for instance, would go out hunting,
often tracking their prey for many days, which required
problem-solving and navigation, whereas women needed
to be more emotionally and linguistically attuned to protect
their home and offspring In fact, studies show that women
with higher than average levels of the male hormone testosterone
tend to be able to read maps more effectively than
other women.
Re: Why do women talk more than men do, but can't read maps as well as men?
YES i bloody well can.
ok so once i was in leicester sq, and i'm like oo look edgware! lets go! turns out it was edgware not edgware rd. i mean who does that HUH. how can edgware road not be in edgware.
this was about 5/6 years ago, i have grown some of that stupidity out.
Re: Why do women talk more than men do, but can't read maps as well as men?
Maps are stupid. I cannit read one or two...in fact, I cannit read any of them. I couldn't even read the map for Alton towers and that had pictures and everything!
I know a lass who can though, Stoppits, she can read maps. I've seen her do it! It was like MAGIC!
Re: Why do women talk more than men do, but can’t read maps as well as men?
Lol i think its fair to say that after marriage you have have to ask permission to breathe. And driving a car well that’s a whole another ball game. That would require offering some gold to the female deity
Re: Why do women talk more than men do, but can’t read maps as well as men?
My comment didn’t come out the way I wanted obviously, freudian slip maybe…but seriously I’m awsome at map reading. So much so that, once my husband was in a different city for a conference, he got lost and couldn’t find the hotel. So he called me for directions! I had never been to that city myself but I took out the map and gave him instructions over the phone! It went something like this: 'ok are you on blah blah road now, turn left from there, so are you on blah blah junction, turn right…this went on for 20 minutes…
Oh how I miss those days, before my souten the GPS came and took over my role…
