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AlSki

AlSki
ubermick said:
I can, but when I'm sitting back in my chair and have to lean forward to use the keyboard for anything then it takes a bit of time to find "home" - literally like fumbling in the dark. My HOTAS is a bit mental, got the Virpil CM-2 throttle which has more hats, switches, and knobs than I know what to do with.
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I have my keyboard between between the hotas so its easy to find, but even so, finding the home keys (well the right keys) is still a problem.

Doesn't help that I either wear the HMD or my glasses, so I'd just be pushing it up for a sneaky peek of blur. First world Getting old problems
 

PRORABBIT67

PRORABBIT67
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Lysette

Lysette
Sysmon said:
Again, anecdotally: I excel at tasks where I have to not be too detail oriented but need to keep attention to everything anyway. My current project is one such where to get the best result, you sort of have to cross your eyes and unfocus slightly or you lose the big picture to all the little details. Some of the people I have assigned to the project really struggle with it as they are detail oriented. Interestingly, the three most efficient people I have working on the project are all female, while at least a couple of the guys get stuck in the details. We end up having the sort of discussions where i have to say "you are correct, but that's not the point here"...

It's interesting to find the little areas where there are actual differences in how the genders work. In martial arts, it's about how the joints bend - those of women generally are set at different angles compared to the joints of men, resulting in having to do joint locks slightly differently. If there's differences in how the male and female brains process visual data, that's interesting too!

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there are physical differences - like female brains have far more connections between both halves of the brain and emphatic abilities are enhanced (this can actually be shown in brain activity scans). The female brain is smaller, men have about 13% more neurons than women, but female brains have increased processing power (basically balancing it out), the male brain supports focusing on a single task better and allows more easily for deep thinking, whereas the female brain is more holistic oriented with quick focus switches, which support multi-tasking and holistic thinking - the latter is quite beneficial in my area of expertise, because it requires inter-facultative thinking and a female brain supports this rather well - but I can get quickly tired, when I have to ponder deeply about a subject - so I rather let this to my brain, feed it with multi-channel input about the subject and wait for the results to "bubble up" and get conscious (I basically force aha-effects in a relaxed state) - works for me well enough, better than deep thinking, what is more the domain of male brains.

This said, I might not be the typical female - I'm a tomboy, probably got more testosterone in the womb than girls normally get, which might as well have had effects on how my brain is structured - so eventually what I feel in regards to brain function might be biased and unlike that of a typical female. I feel this for example with mulit-tasking - I get stressed having more than 4 chats at the same time, whereas gfs of mine aren't even stressed with 6,7 or 8 parallel chats (written chats). Male friends I asked about this have rarely more than 2 in parallel - this just doesn't seem to be a thing for men, to have a multitude of chats in parallel.

The most surprising chat to me were 3 greek women, all talking at the same to each other - I mean full duplex about different subjects all in parallel - and when I interrupted them and asked them how they can do that, their answer was, we don't have enough time for a normal chat - they exchanged information about family issues and other subjects all talking at the same time to each other - listening to 2 others while talking to one, then to the other, then back to the first one and so on. It was chaos but they got it sorted and were quite consistently going on like this.
 
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Bottom Hat

Bottom Hat
Lysette said:
there are physical differences - like female brains have far more connections between both halves of the brain and emphatic abilities are enhanced (this can actually be shown in brain activity scans). The female brain is smaller, men have about 13% more neurons than women, but female brains have increased processing power (basically balancing it out), the male brain supports focusing on a single task better and allows more easily for deep thinking, whereas the female brain is more holistic oriented with quick focus switches, which support multi-tasking and holistic thinking - the latter is quite beneficial in my area of expertise, because it requires inter-facultative thinking and a female brain supports this rather well - but I can get quickly tired, when I have to ponder deeply about a subject - so I rather let this to my brain, feed it with multi-channel input about the subject and wait for the results to "bubble up" and get conscious (I basically force aha-effects in a relaxed state) - works for me well enough, better than deep thinking, what is more the domain of male brains.

This said, I might not be the typical female - I'm a tomboy, probably got more testosterone in the womb than girls normally get, which might as well have had effects on how my brain is structured - so eventually what I feel in regards to brain function might be biased and unlike that of a typical female. I feel this for example with mulit-tasking - I get stressed having more than 4 chats at the same time, whereas gfs of mine aren't even stressed with 6,7 or 8 parallel chats (written chats).
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As a bloke, the conclusion I draw from this is that Ender is a big girl's blouse.
 

xzanfr

xzanfr
If I try and do 3 things at the same time I fall over.
Sometimes mrs turns round and finds me on the ground if, for example, I'm walking, thinking about something and notice a bird flying past.
Co-workers used to use this to my detriment when I worked on the river by shouting my name when I was doing 2 things to make me fall in.
 

Bottom Hat

Bottom Hat
xzanfr said:
If I try and do 3 things at the same time I fall over.
Sometimes mrs turns round and finds me on the ground if, for example, I'm walking, thinking about something and notice a bird flying past.
Co-workers used to use this to my detriment when I worked on the river by shouting my name when I was doing 2 things to make me fall in.
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I'd love it if this was true - it would make for some great slapstick comedy!
 

Lysette

Lysette
Several Puffins said:
Hang on, is the important word here women or is it Greek? Frankly, this describes all but one of my past and present Greek coworkers.
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I'm not sure about it, the only people I knew, doing full duplex chat like this have been greek - not just those 3, I saw another 2 do that as well - talking and listening both at the same time to each other. All of them were female - so who knows?
 
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