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Women Need Larger Screens for Desktop Navigation?
Mac of Macistan writes "In a recent
article in the New Scientist, Microsoft's R&D claims that women have a harder time navigating the desktop because their spatial abilities are roughly 20% lower than men's abilities. Maybe Linux UI people can get a jump on MS by making KDE/Gnome more accessible to more females."
keep telling me that size doesn't matter!?!
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are all very well, but don't you think the few women who DO use PCs are in the almost-like-a-man range of spatial abilities?
But widescreen will make my butt look bigger!!!
*wail*
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"Maybe Linux UI people can get a jump on MS by making KDE/Gnome more accessible to more females."
Uh... yea. Because Linux and women go together like peanut butter and chocolate.
Is that a really wordy way of saying that women think the space between these brackets [ ] is 8"?
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Finally, I'll now have a scientific explanation why 'some poeple' shouldn't be allowed to drive.
Humor. Don't shoot.
They could also say that women are tidier than me, so that will take care of the "desktop clutter" so typical of Windows users.
"Heh. News flash, the genders aren't equal. One of them can bear children..."
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"Maybe Linux UI people can get a jump on MS by making KDE/Gnome more accessible to more females."
So you are saying, that linux makes your screen bigger? Wow, I quess I'll try it right now! Does this screen largening effect also work if used with VMWare? How big will my 15" screen get when using linux? 17"? Or maybe even 19"? Is widescreen supported yet?
True but let's be more accurate.
men _on_the_average_ have better 3d (and numaric) abilities, while woman are _on_the_average_ better at linguistic abilities.
the standard deviation in each group, however is bigger then the diff in the averages, so it says little about comparing any two individuals.
This has been known for quite a while. IQ tests, for instance, give numarical and linguistic abilities equal value exactly because of this.
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Yeah - because now all of a sudden Linux geeks will have some insight into what women want? If they could do that, they might make themselves presentable to women, not design a UI for them.
On second thought, which is more likely?
My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.
Men's perception of woman: it's all about bigger boob tubes.
Why bother.
The scientists are missing the whole point of their research.
What would really help would be to enlarge burning buildings and battlefields by 30-70%.
quiquid id est, timeo puellas et oscula dantes.
Favors men? Ok, how about we make a mouse that is shaped like an iron? Or better yet, doubles as an iron so you can press my shirt!
All you need to do to sell a computer to a woman is make it very overpriced, put Martha Stewart's name on it and sell it at the GAP.
Yeah, I noticed that they didn't say if men experienced similar boosts in performance if they were given larger screens and smoother animations too.
Actually it said the gender difference disappeared in that case. So presumably, the men experienced a slight increase or no increase at all, and women experienced a larger increase to bring them to parity.
This might explain why my ex-gf would wait until I was cruising past an intersection in the left-hand lane to shout "TURN RIGHT!!!" and could never tell me in advance where a turn was coming up.
... they can undo those frustrating bra straps.
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Really? Great!
I can't wait until "My Computer" actually looks like my computer. Oh, and the "Recycling Bin" looks like a REAL recycling bin. Will they EVER stop innovating at Microsoft?
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It seems that you have forgotten about the French.
Maybe they should focus on making it accessible to regular people, and THEN focus on a sub-demographic.
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