Women Make Men Stupid
Something we've all just assumed is true is now buttressed by scientific inquiry. From Scientific American:
Researchers have begun to explore the cognitive impairment that men experience before and after interacting with women. A 2009 study demonstrated that after a short interaction with an attractive woman, men experienced a decline in mental performance. A more recent study suggests that this cognitive impairment takes hold even when men simply anticipate interacting with a woman who they know very little about.
This sounds like another one of those government boondoggles to study something everyone already knew. But some of the findings are interesting. In a test to determine if women and men suffer similar increases of stupidity when they interact with each other -- my initial assumption was that they do -- the scientists discovered a pretty focused response:
...women’s performance on the test did not differ, regardless of whether they were expecting a man or woman to observe them. But men who had been told a woman would observe them ended up doing much worse on the second Stroop task. Thus, simply anticipating the opposite sex interaction was enough to interfere with men’s cognitive functioning.
Women -- even the thought of women -- make men stupid.
Now we know.
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Jun '10
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I knew it had to be their fault. We do need a war on women. But could someone else lead it? I'm feeling a bit dull at the moment; nervous too.
Edited on March 23, 2012 at 5:48pmMay '10
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This explains a lot.
Sep '11
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This would seem to reinforce the arguments for single-sex schooling, particularly for middle- and high-school students.
Men get "twitterpated"--and high school girls learn to "ease off the gas," (as my wife put it) to avoid embarrassing boys in class. A girlfriend in college, who graduated from Philadelphia Girls High, said much the same thing.
Oct '10
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In other news, physicists have announced that - and I quote - "water is wet".
Mar '11
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I wish I'd known about this 40 years ago - by now, tis too late.
Jun '10
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Blood only flows to one controlling-organ at a time.
Mar '11
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The children in my family who went to single-sex schools all consistently outperform the children who went to mixed-sex schools.
And that's just a fact.
Feb '11
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This is interesting, and I am sure it explains a lot (e.g., Rob's post would have been even more interesting had Rob not been cognizant that women were going to read it).
Feb '11
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So Goethe was wrong when he said
Das Ewig-Weibliche zieht uns hinan
The Eternal-Feminine
Draws us on high ???
Aug '10
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tabula rasa: I knew it had to be their fault. We do need a war on women. But could someone else lead it? I'm feeling a bit dull at the moment; nervous too. · 58 minutes ago
Edited 56 minutes ago
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Edited on March 23, 2012 at 6:48pmJan '11
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I'm sorry. Say that again?
Edited on March 23, 2012 at 7:18pmApr '11
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I knowed it. Kerss yous vyle wimin.
Apr '11
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tabula rasa: I knew it had to be their fault. We do need a war on women. But could someone else lead it? I'm feeling a bit dull at the moment; nervous too. · 2 hours ago
Edited 2 hours ago
This is why I support gay men in the military. I am sure they are immune to these feminine wiles.
Dec '10
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And yet, our liberal elites continue the war on boys unabated. And they're the self-described smart ones?!!
Dec '11
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I think Adam said it best, "It is the woman."
This is also probably why men die sooner. All that stress is a killer.
Does anyone know if it was a man or a woman who invented life insurance?
Mar '11
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Hmmm. The women in L.A. are said to be beautiful. And Californians are especially stupid. Makes sense. On the other hand, women in San Francisco and Seattle are particularly uglier and frumpier than the norm, yet San Franciscans and Seattletillians are even stupider than California as a whole. Further research is needed. I will submit to being a test subject under the hypothesis that having carnal relations with beautiful women makes you dumb.
Dec '10
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Dhu!
Oct '11
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Rob Long:
Women -- even thethought of women -- make men stupid.
Now we know. · · 6 hours ago
Obviously the researchers never had to date a woman.
Pretty much
May '10
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This has absolutely nothing to do with your post, Rob, but having just taken the Charles Murray "Bubble Quiz," I wanted to take this opportunity to say: 44. Eat your arugula-grazing heart out.
(Grew up in a small Alabama town, worked for the Air Force, currently work at an aircraft factory, plus whoa-Nellie, Waffle House! So many opportunities for cheap extra points...)
Edited on March 24, 2012 at 12:06amMay '10
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Rita Rudner: There's a scientific link between breast size and intelligence. The bigger a woman's boobs, the stupider the men around her.