The eyes have it: Men do see things differently to women

The way that the visual centers of men and women’s brains works is different, finds new research published in BioMed Central’s open access journal Biology of Sex Differences. Men have greater sensitivity to fine detail and rapidly moving stimuli, but women are better at discriminating between colors.

  • shyguyblue@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Anecdotal proof time:

    My dad’s truck.

    Me, my brother, brothers’ friend and brothers’ friends’ sister, all XY, all see a greenish gray truck.

    My mother, sister-in-law, brothers’ friends’ wife, all XX, all see a dark green truck.

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      2 months ago

      This reminds me of my wife and I arguing over whether my shorts were grey or brown, she asks her friends and she just says “oh those, they are taupe”. Which essentially means my wife won that argument.