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The eyes have it: Men do see things differently to women

The way that the visual centers of men and women's brains works is different, finds new research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Biology of Sex Differences. Men have greater sensitivity to fine detail and rapidly moving stimuli, but women are better at discriminating between colors.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Men have greater sensitivity to fine detail and rapidly moving stimuli

Looks at every first person shooter demographic

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

So is the power of transness allowing me to obliterate eggs in Shell Shockers?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

women are better at discriminating between colors.

Misread this as saying women are better at racism lol.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

Woman can be racist to way more shades of skin color than men

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

I wonder if that correlates with hallucinations or seizures.

[–] [email protected] 282 points 1 week ago (24 children)
[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 week ago

Hmm... Men are more excited through visuals while women are more excited by touch.

I'm not actually sure if you are joking.

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[–] [email protected] 131 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Still can't find your damned socks though

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

But our girlfriends can, because she can distinguish the sock colour from the floor colour easier...nature, it just works.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 week ago (6 children)

So what i'm hearing is that i should attach all items my husband regulalrly loses track of to a moving object to play into his sight strengths. Basket on the ceiling fan it is

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Socks don't move of their own accord.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Then how do they disappear from the dryer?

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[–] [email protected] 104 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

And most of us absolutely love filling those neurons with images of women

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fine detail and rapidly moving stimuli ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

That explains jiggle physics then

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[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 week ago (2 children)

But they still can't see why kids love the taste of Cinnamon Toast Crunch...

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 week ago (2 children)

... Men are also ~20% larger than women on average. Is this count standardized by size of the person?

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'm curious about this. They say that it's related to in utero exposure to androgens, which means it's probably not as clear cut as XX vs XY, because intersex folk and folk with atypical hormonal exposure (such as fraternal twins of different sexes, with a shared placenta) experience different levels of exposure, and different reactions to that exposure.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Whatever it does, it doesn't seem to help with colors.

[–] [email protected] 81 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Men have greater sensitivity to fine detail and rapidly moving stimuli, but women are better at discriminating between colors.

Literally under the headline.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 week ago (7 children)

If only some men used those neurons to read

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