newsperanza:

Too accurate to be ignored. 

hienny:

Applying for jobs…. It asked for my gender and apparently, Canadian is a gender?

WHAT ARE YOU TRING TO SAY, HUH?

I’LL HAVE YOU KNOW THAT MY TWO BEST FRIENDS ARE CANADIAN AND I WON’T BE HAVING ANYONE, ESPECIALLY YOU, DISRESPECTING THEIR IDENTITIES.

neurosciencestuff:

Never forget a face? Researchers find women have better memory recall than men

New research from McMaster University suggests women can remember faces better than men, in part because they spend more time studying features without even knowing it, and a technique researchers say can help improve anyone’s memories.

The findings help to answer long-standing questions about why some people can remember faces easily while others quickly forget someone they’ve just met.

“The way we move our eyes across a new individual’s face affects our ability to recognize that individual later,” explains Jennifer Heisz, a research fellow at the Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest Health Sciences and newly appointed assistant professor in the Department of Kinesiology at McMaster University.

She co-authored the paper with David Shore, psychology professor at McMaster and psychology graduate student Molly Pottruff.

“Our findings provide new insights into the potential mechanisms of episodic memory and the differences between the sexes. We discovered that women look more at new faces than men do, which allows them to create a richer and more superior memory,” Heisz says.

Eye tracking technology was used to monitor where study participants looked—be it eyes, nose or mouth—while they were shown a series of randomly selected faces on a computer screen. Each face was assigned a name that participants were asked to remember.

One group was tested over the course of one day, another group tested over the course of four days.

“We found that women fixated on the features far more than men, but this strategy operates completely outside of our awareness. Individuals don’t usually notice where their eyes fixate, so it’s all subconscious.”

The implications are exciting, she says, because it means anyone can be taught to scan more and potentially have better memory.

“The results open the possibility that changing our eye movement pattern may lead to better memory,” says Shore. “Increased scanning may prove to be a simple strategy to improve face memory in the general population, especially for individuals with memory impairment like older adults.”

How much of this is just a product of culture?

Research findings on sex differences always gets people excited, but pretty much everything that gets followed up on shows negligible sex differences that aren’t explained away by culture. (Meaning the results are only replicated within a certain culture, so it isn’t a human trait as much as it is just socially learned.)

theonion:

Asian Guy Has Separate Group Of Just Asian Friends | Full Report

theskepticdervish:

What Kind of Asian Are You

My aunt posted this on facebook. Fuckin died almost

WHY IS THIS NOT VIRAL YET?

This, exactly, 100x over.

This happens to me now and then, and I’m not even Asian. I guess people can tell a first generation American when they see one?

lulz-machine:

David Mitchell going on to discuss female rights.

lcgccx:

orgy-of-nerdiness:

Petition

The problem with this is that these regulations aren’t JUST for women. Most of the time, guys are also prohibited from wearing those kinds of clothing.

And as has been stated many times over: this is because school is meant to be seen as preparation for the professional world. It’s not your personal time. You shouldn’t be running around in booty shorts and a tank top. You certainly wouldn’t do that at your job. And at that age? School is your job.

Edit: Yes, I get that this is supposed to be humorous. But at the same time, it’s stemming from a lot of people complaining about how unfair the dress codes at school are. Because everyone should be allowed to wear what they want.

Except that’s not how the real world works. It’s never going to. The only problem I see that needs fixing is perhaps a few places where they don’t have the same kinds of rules for both genders (in that, I mean that if girls are not allowed to wear shorts of a certain length, guys shouldn’t be allowed to either — girls can’t wear tank tops? Neither can guys).

It is worth noting, too, that this is extremely culture-locked. In Florida, everyone wears tank tops, men and women alike, because it is just that hot. Dress code is lax, and there aren’t many problems with it because it is just a matter of pragmatism. People who have problems with seeing shoulders tend to just be products of their culture. It isn’t even conservative to cover up. Just a different cultural background.

“They’re dangerous.”