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Experiment: Who can find the best stick, men or women?

Asked by poisonedantidote (21675points) January 5th, 2011

I have a little hypothesis that I would like to put to the test.

Because of some things that I have noticed over the years, I have started to suspect that men have a skill that women do not have, or at least, have to a lesser extent.

Perhaps it is a survival thing, perhaps it is a hunter-gatherer thing, or perhaps I’m just crazy, but I think men, have an inbuilt instinct that gives them a sense of appreciation for good sticks.

I suspect that If you show 5 different men, 5 different sticks, the 5 men will be able to reach an agreement on what stick is the best one. But if you show 5 women 5 different sticks, all 5 women will just say “I don’t get it, they are just sticks”.

I know what you are thinking, how can a stick be “the best stick”. Surely some sticks will be better suited at some tasks than others. While this may be true, it is besides the point. When I say a man can tell what stick is the best stick, I mean a man can tell what stick is the best stick, without knowing what the stick is for.

I suspect it is because of this instinct that men have, that Harry Potter (created by a woman) has a little curly wand, whilst Gandalf (created by a man) has a long solid staff. inuendo ftw

With all this in mind, I would like to conduct a little experiment:

Below I will post 4 links to 4 different pictures of 4 different sticks. You task is to tell me, A) If you are male or female, and B) What stick is the best one, and C) if you live in a rural or urban place.

Links:

Stick 1
Stick 2
Stick 3
Stick 4

I basically want to see how many people agree with my choice of stick, as well as how many are male and if they live in a rural place or not. I also want to see what kind of grouping there is in different demographics.

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