Science Discovers Why Women Always Win Arguments
(Besides Being Right All the Time (I Must Not Displease Our Great Female Overlords))
In this article from Scientific American, Daisy Grewal explains a study conducted at a University in the Netherlands (doesn't that just make perfect sense?) where the researchers tested the cognitive performance of participants once before a task was assigned and once after a task was assigned. As the task was assigned, participants were told that either a male or female would be watching them perform the task. In one trial, researchers had a webcam set up on participants and the task was actually performed. In the next trial, the second test was taken by participants before the task was even performed.
Regardless, women participants showed no chance in cognition performance on the test based while men showed significantly WORSE results when they knew a woman would be watching:
"Once again, 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."
"Once again, 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."
Well, it looks like I've finally figured out why I can start a discussion with my girlfriend so sure that I'm right but always somehow end up a stuttering mess. Damn you Mother Nature!! Wait a second... Mother Nature... She's in on this! It's a conspiracy!
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