Male superiority: Go ahead and Google to confirm

01 April 2015 - 02:56 By ©The Daily Telegraph

Here is an area in which men triumph over women: Googling abilities. One of the key studies was done with a group of schoolchildren who were given a project and access to Google. They had to find out how mosquitoes select their prey.The boys out-performed the girls by a "significant" margin. They were better at acquiring information directly related to the subject at hand, and they gained more high-quality knowledge related to the topic as a whole.So how did they do it? Another study found that men were able to decide more quickly whether the information they had found was useful.For example, whereas women searching for shoes tend to include a size in their search request, men tend to focus on other descriptors: colour, price or location. This strategy is more efficient because it gets them to the ideal shoe first and then they can let the shop worry about getting the right size. ..

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