( Researchers at the University of Warwic...)Performance of Mental Tasks Affected by Sexual Orientation,Health

Researchers at the University of Warwick have found that sexual orientation has a real effect on how we perform mental tasks such as navigating with a map in a car but that old age does not discriminate on grounds of sexual orientation and withers all mens minds alike just ahead of womens.

The University of Warwick researchers worked with the BBC to collect data from over 198,000 people aged 2065 years (109,612 men and 88,509 women). As expected they found men outperformed women on tests such as mentally rotating objects (NB the researchers tests used abstract objects but the skills used are also those one would use in real life to navigate with a map). They found that women outperformed men in verbal dexterity tests, and remembering the locations of objects. However for a number of tasks the University of Warwick researchers found key differences across the range of sexual orientations studied.

For instance in mental rotation (a task where men usually perform better) they found that the table of best performance to worst was:

* Heterosexual men
* Bisexual men
* Homosexual men
* Homosexual women
* Bisexual women
* Heterosexual women

In general, over the range of tasks measured, where a gender performed better in a task heterosexuals of that gender tended to perform better than non-heterosexuals. When a particular gender was poorer at a task homosexual and bisexual people tended to perform better than heterosexual members of that gender.

However age was found to discriminate on gender grounds but not sexual orientation. The study found that mens mental abilities declined faster than womens and that sexual orientation made no difference to the rate of that decline either for men or women.


'"/>




Page: 1
Related medicine news :

1. Journal Recommends How To Improve The Performance Of Health Workers
2. New Drug Found To Improve Driving Performance In Young Adults With ADHD
3. Dealing With Stress Results In Better Academic Performance
4. Newer Generation Sleeping Pills Lack Superior Performance
5. Drug Combo Improves Performance Of Multiple Sclerosis Drug
6. Motivation Yardstick: Rewards or Punishment? Discover the Superior Performance Trigger
7. Students to Evaluate the Performance of Teachers
8. Physical Activity Determines Academic Performance
9. Common Sleep Disorder Hinders School Performance
10. Hospital Performance Measures May Not Make Much Difference When It Comes to Mortality
11. Most Hospital Performance Measures for Heart Failure Not Linked to Improved Patient Outcomes