Women perform better at visiospatial and anticipatory processess when menstruating
Women perform better at visiospatial and anticipatory processess when menstruating
There was no group difference in reaction times and accuracy between males and females (using contraception and not). However, within subject analyses revealed that regularly menstruating females performed better during menstruation compared to being in any other phase, with faster reaction times (10ms c.ca, p < .01), fewer errors (p < .05) and lower dispersion intra-individual variability (p < .05). In contrast they exhibited slower reaction times (10ms c.ca, p < .01) and poorer timing anticipation (p < .01) in the luteal phase, and more errors in the predicted ovulatory phase (p < .01). Self-reported mood, cognitive and physical symptoms were all worst during menstruation (p < .01), and a significant proportion of females felt that their symptoms were negatively affecting their cognitive performance during menstruation on testing day, which was incongruent with their actual performance.
That's interesting but what was the point of the study?
The implications for female sports seem quite apparent.
As well as vampire slaying. Cramps plus heightened senses may save Donald Sutherland next time.
Ok, fair point, I certainly wasn't thinking of that angle.
Interesting. Other factors should be considered as well, such as the fact that many women feel "icky" and bothered when on their period. So that might be still a net negative.
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Interesting. For memory tasks it seems to be the opposite. Worse during the luteal phase.
After seeing the most recent münecat video I don’t believe research like this anymore.
I am not familiar with that individual, I assume you don't mean the musician on YouTube that Google found for me?
https://youtu.be/31e0RcImReY?si=18IbWnHxRGAfticv
From the title it might not sound super related, but she goes super in depth on how these intelligence researches usually are extremely problematic. As in literally telling women that women did better in these tests made them perform as well or better than men in typically “male intelligence areas”. We don’t really understand intelligence, and how it develops, and how to measure it.
So ascribing higher or lower intelligence in certain fields to certain groups just doesn’t work. Irregardless for how statistically sound it might be. We just don’t understand the parameters around it well enough to control for it.
As a dude with records in rhythm games, I feel like I would skew these statistics if I were part of the study.
The moral of the story is that I gotta game with the girls during their special time.