PILOT SPIN
Pilot Zone => Pilot Zone => Topic started by: Jaybird180 on March 06, 2016, 09:38:22 AM
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Congratulations on her promotion to Colonel
http://m.reviewjournal.com/news/military/first-female-thunderbird-pilot-helping-showcase-women-veterans-stories
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So the fuck what? She's a woman. Big deal.
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So the fuck what? She's a woman. Big deal.
It means that military social order has changed sufficiently to permit this. It is well known that women have superior hand-eye coordination and G-tolerance, good traits for a fighter pilot and demonstration pilot. Yes, there are other traits that make men better aerial warriors but this is a big leap forward. Her tour as a Thunderbird is done and she continued on to make Col. I wouldn't be surprised if she became the first woman President.
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It is well known that women have superior hand-eye coordination and G-tolerance,
Well known? it is?
hmmmmm, maybe you might want to rethink how "well known" it is.... (http://www.columbia.edu/itc/anthropology/v1007/jakabovics/mf2.html)
"Men are better in spatial coordination and have a better sense of direction (usually!). They excel in math and are great at interpreting three-dimensional objects. They have a better hand-eye coordination....." "....These differences are not rules. "
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So we need to promote women just because they are women? Like blacks? ::)
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I wouldn't be surprised if she became the first woman President.
One can only hope!
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So we need to promote women just because they are women? Like blacks? ::)
The thinking is that "women and minorities" have a harder row to hoe because of stereotyping and prejudices acquired through centuries of cultural conditioning by non-women and non-minorities to view them that way.
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...a harder row to hoe...
Thanks for using that correctly.
It's rare enough to deserve comment.
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Well known? it is?
hmmmmm, maybe you might want to rethink how "well known" it is.... (http://www.columbia.edu/itc/anthropology/v1007/jakabovics/mf2.html (http://www.columbia.edu/itc/anthropology/v1007/jakabovics/mf2.html))
"Men are better in spatial coordination and have a better sense of direction (usually!). They excel in math and are great at interpreting three-dimensional objects. They have a better hand-eye coordination....." "....These differences are not rules. "
Thank you for clearing that up. The article specifies that gross motor skills are better in men than women but another article I'm reading (http://www.mensdefense.org/STM_Book/TheSexesDifferences.htm)hints at the possibility of social development accounting for that, but I think the experiment is hardly scientific using basketball as a measure as boys gravitate more to balls and throwing, etc. I did find this tidbit interesting in the article
Barton Goldsmith, Ph.D., MFT claims that women speak at a rate of 250 words per minute; men speak at 125. Although men’s vocal chords are longer and thicker, women on average speak 25,000 words per day, contrasted with a man's average 12,000 (perhaps that’s why they usually get the last word).
What I should have stated was that girls have better fine motor skills (http://sciencenordic.com/girls-have-better-motor-skills-boys-do) and other social devlopment skills than boys and this trend seems to continue also into adulthood.
This article (http://scholar.google.com/scholar_url?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.researchgate.net%2Fprofile%2FPeet_Du_Toit%2Fpublication%2F233731014_Comparison_of_the_performances_of_male_and_female_armed_services_recruits_undergoing_sports_vision_testing%2Flinks%2F00b49515d188416c46000000&hl=en&sa=T&oi=ggp&ct=res&cd=7&ei=M-XdVr2DAsK4mQHy2qD4Dw&scisig=AAGBfm07L_CBjTyc_heNmXtVfNyNswmIOQ&nossl=1&ws=1050x1571) I found on Google Scholar states
[font=]Studies based on neurophysiology have shown that men are better in targeting or aiming tasks performed in an extra-personal space because they have a posterioly located motor programming system. On the other hand, women have an anterior located motor programming system which allows them to excel in fine motor tasks and tasks that involve the intrapersonal motor accuracy (Tottenham, Saucier, Elias & Gutwin, 2005; Tottenham, 2006). [/font]
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"Barton Goldsmith, Ph.D., MFT claims that women speak at a rate of 250 words per minute; men speak at 125."
more interesting would be whether men listen to all the words women say...
:-)