A team of psychologists, social scientists, philosophers and evolutionary researchers affiliated with multiple institutions in the U.S. has found evidence suggesting that the slight advantage males have in navigation ability is likely due to differences in the ways male and female children are raised.

A team of psychologists, social scientists, philosophers and evolutionary researchers affiliated with multiple institutions in the U.S. has found evidence suggesting that the slight advantage males have in navigation ability is likely due to differences in the ways male and female children are raised.

In their paper published in the journal Royal Society Open Science, the group describes how they studied navigational skills in multiple species to find out if there might be an evolutionary basis for one gender or the other having better skills.

  • Quokka@quokk.auEnglish
    15·
    10 months ago

    I swear every time science comes along and tells me this is what men do be, I’m always the opposite.

    I navigate entirely by landmarks (Well Google Maps these days).

    • Sombyr@lemmy.zip
      8·
      10 months ago

      I navigate by not navigating and just accepting that the second I left the house I was already lost.

    • vivavideri@lemmy.world
      72·
      10 months ago

      I nonbinarily roll my eyes. Maybe the cartographile in me just keeps me in the right direction lol

    • otp@sh.itjust.works
      17·
      10 months ago

      I believe street names are part of the “male method”, so Google Maps uses that method.

      If it said “Turn right at the intersection with the big police station”, then it’d be the “landmark method”.

        • otp@sh.itjust.works
          2·
          10 months ago

          It could with businesses. Turn left past the McDonalds. Keep going until you pass the empty plot on your right, etc.