A lot of men are going to refuse to believe this new research, but facts are facts, so we’ll just have to put our little egos away and suck it up.
The University of Massachusetts’ Duncan Irschick is responsible for this research, which is bound to find women across the globe pointing and laughing at us, pathetic men.
In hammering out the differences between the sexes, the researchers used a mechanical plate that measured force and accuracy. They put small and large targets on the plate, to represent small and large nail heads. Then some test subjects pounded away.
“On average, men were about 25 percent more accurate than women in the dark, women were about 10 percent more accurate then men in the light,” Irschick said.
“Men and women differ in their ability to perceive objects in light versus dark environments, and this has a subsequent effect on motor control,” he speculates. “This is a provocative idea that will require a lot more data to test, and at this point, we don’t have a good handle on the nature of the motor control and perceptive differences that would induce this difference, but we are excited to find out.”
Okay, well, we can still hammer in the dark better than women, so take that! Of course, why anyone would be hammering in the dark is beyond me, but hey, when the electrivity grid goes down in the future because of some global catastrophe, we’ll be well-positioned for night hammering.
