Women are forgetful
Women are forgetful. Period.
I was reading the first article from the May 2006 edition of "Dharuma", when it quoted a verse from the Quran. Here is the English translation:
Simply put, two men are reliable witnesses and are void of memory slips. The equivalent of a man is two women. The women, together and only together, are able to serve as the replacement of a man. This is, as is asserted, because women are prone to make mistakes due to their forgetfulness!
But are women really forgetful? Are they really deficient at memory tasks? Are they less reliable than men? Studies show otherwise. For most tasks, women and men perform equally. However, there seems to be a few tasks that one gender outperforms the other. Women are credited to have better verbal episodic memory than men while men excel at remembering visual/spatial information. Here are a few relevant papers listed at PubMed.
- Sex differences in cognition are stable over a 10-year period in adulthood and old age.
- Sex differences favoring women in verbal but not in visuospatial episodic memory.
- Gender differences in episodic memory.
So, are women not be trusted with remembering things? I guess it really depends on what you'd rather believe
Note: Any hint of sarcasm in the article is entirely coincidential
I was reading the first article from the May 2006 edition of "Dharuma", when it quoted a verse from the Quran. Here is the English translation:
Al-Baqara (The Cow)
2:282 [...] And call to witness, from among your men, two witnesses. And if two men be not (at hand) then a man and two women, of such as ye approve as witnesses, so that if the one erreth (through forgetfulness) the other will remember. [...] Translation: M. Picktall
Simply put, two men are reliable witnesses and are void of memory slips. The equivalent of a man is two women. The women, together and only together, are able to serve as the replacement of a man. This is, as is asserted, because women are prone to make mistakes due to their forgetfulness!
But are women really forgetful? Are they really deficient at memory tasks? Are they less reliable than men? Studies show otherwise. For most tasks, women and men perform equally. However, there seems to be a few tasks that one gender outperforms the other. Women are credited to have better verbal episodic memory than men while men excel at remembering visual/spatial information. Here are a few relevant papers listed at PubMed.
- Sex differences in cognition are stable over a 10-year period in adulthood and old age.
- Sex differences favoring women in verbal but not in visuospatial episodic memory.
- Gender differences in episodic memory.
So, are women not be trusted with remembering things? I guess it really depends on what you'd rather believe
Note: Any hint of sarcasm in the article is entirely coincidential
aww you had to say it so bluntly. i choose a more subtle indirect incursion....
