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	Directionally Challenged?

drjamie03

3-20-2007 5:07 PM

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Millions of adults around the world will remain "directionally challenged" for their entire lives. For them, a skill that most people master by the age of 12 will always be a craps shoot.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06141/691956-114.stm"><P>
Studies show that, in general, women have a more difficult time with this task than men do. Other studies show that left-handers have more trouble discriminating left from right. Still others say just the opposite.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06141/691956-114.stm"><P>
As to what's going on inside the brains of people who are directionally dumbfounded, there are plenty of interesting theories, but no definitive answers.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06141/691956-114.stm"><P>
Still, there is a distinct contrast in how women and men orient themselves in the world, Dr. Voyer said, based on the fact that men have better mental mapping skills and women are better observers and have better memories.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06141/691956-114.stm"><P>
Even if women do worse as a group on some spatial tasks than do men, the percentage of both sexes who struggle constantly with right and left is a distinct minority, the researchers agreed.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/4A2F559C-3D5F-4FDE-BEB6-20FB1E3BDCCB/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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