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Post by sjpelke on Mar 21, 2017 22:14:40 GMT
What's a good time frame for when to delete a girl's number for a random acquintance? 3 days, one week, ... Why would you erase a number for a random acquintance ? Probably missed the irony again in that question On another note, is it true that men have a hard time to multitask? That is another one of the stereotypes that go around
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Post by mattig89ch on Mar 21, 2017 22:25:22 GMT
On another note, is it true that men have a hard time to multitask? That is another one of the stereotypes that go around Its true for me. I can't walk and chew gum at the same time.
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Post by DomeWing333 on Mar 21, 2017 22:52:37 GMT
On another note, is it true that men have a hard time to multitask? That is another one of the stereotypes that go around Pretty true in my experience. At least comparatively. I've had a girl browse the internet, watch an anime, play a video game, and Skype chat with me all at the same time. And that's apparently her usual level of activity. I don't get it. I can barely carry on a verbal conversation while I'm watching or playing something. ...That's not to say her level of attention to any one of those things is particularly stellar though. I've had her miss or misinterpret some pretty key details in the thing we were watching together.
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Post by Giant Ambush Beetle on Mar 21, 2017 23:21:52 GMT
What's a good time frame for when to delete a girl's number for a random acquintance? 3 days, one week, ... On another note, is it true that men have a hard time to multitask? That is another one of the stereotypes that go around All the male race car drivers, jet pilots, military mission coordinators and air traffic controller say no. I can't speak for all the members of my gender but personally I have to say multitasking feels hard for me because I like to really concentrate on one thing, but concentrate fully on it. I don't like switching from fully focusing on one thing to focusing on several thing simultaneously, but once I'm in the groove I can totally be as good at it as a woman. In the end its just a preference, male specimen of our race seem to like to fully concentrate on one thing at a time but if they have to they can multi task. Women simply seem not to mind as much.
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Post by DomeWing333 on Mar 21, 2017 23:42:02 GMT
On another note, is it true that men have a hard time to multitask? That is another one of the stereotypes that go around All the male race car drivers, jet pilots, military mission coordinators and air traffic controller say no. I can't speak for all the members of my gender but personally I have to say multitasking feels hard for me because I like to really concentrate on one thing, but concentrate fully on it. I don't like switching from fully focusing on one thing to focusing on several thing simultaneously, but once I'm in the groove I can totally be as good at it as a woman. In the end its just a preference, male specimen of our race seem to like to fully concentrate on one thing at a time but if they have to they can multi task. Women simply seem not to mind as much. While these are all complex and involve lots of moving parts, I think the actions they involve could still be classed under one overarching "task." There's still a central thing that's being focused on. And for race car drivers and jet pilots, a lot of it becomes second nature and is done without really involving attention at all. Multi-tasking I think of as more about keeping disparate things in mind.
Part of it is preference for me as well. Another part of it relates back to something that was discussed previously, and that's the observation that men are better able to "tune things out" when focusing on a task. The flip side of it is that it's harder for us not to tune things out and so when we try to multitask, one thing ends up drawing our focus and drowning out everything else.
Of course, it goes without saying that these are anecdotal observations of trends and not a cut-and-dry evaluation of what individual men and women would be good at.
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Post by Giant Ambush Beetle on Mar 22, 2017 0:00:46 GMT
All the male race car drivers, jet pilots, military mission coordinators and air traffic controller say no. I can't speak for all the members of my gender but personally I have to say multitasking feels hard for me because I like to really concentrate on one thing, but concentrate fully on it. I don't like switching from fully focusing on one thing to focusing on several thing simultaneously, but once I'm in the groove I can totally be as good at it as a woman. In the end its just a preference, male specimen of our race seem to like to fully concentrate on one thing at a time but if they have to they can multi task. Women simply seem not to mind as much. While these are all complex and involve lots of moving parts, I think the actions they involve could still be classed under one overarching "task." There's still a central thing that's being focused on. And for race car drivers and jet pilots, a lot of it becomes second nature and is done without really involving attention at all. Multi-tasking I think of as more about keeping disparate things in mind.
Part of it is preference for me as well. Another part of it relates back to something that was discussed previously, and that's the observation that men are better able to "tune things out" when focusing on a task. The flip side of it is that it's harder for us not to tune things out and so when we try to multitask, one thing ends up drawing our focus and drowning out everything else.
Of course, it goes without saying that these are anecdotal observations of trends and not a cut-and-dry evaluation of what individual men and women would be good at.
DEFINITELY not in the case of a fighter pilot, a pilot has to read the instruments as carefully as checking the surrounding and steering the plane. We are talking about a hundred extremely important instruments here, a dozen weapon systems, a plane flying through the air at up to 1.5 times the speed of sound while engaging one or multiple enemy planes that fire back with rockets that go several times the speed of sound. They even have to make calculations while doing all this. You'd be hard pressed to find anything that requires more multitasking. Its like playing several games at once. They even have a specific term for getting knot in your brain from all the multitasking, its called ''Helmet fire''. Because thats how it feels when you have too much to do simultaneously in a cockpit. In this job men seem to do just fine. If women were so great in multitasking they would excel in fighter pilot roles, but they do not seem to do any better than their male colleges. And to throw in some anecdotal personal experience, from all the women I know only one is exceptionally good in multitasking, the others are pretty much on par with everyone else, including me and other men.
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Post by DomeWing333 on Mar 22, 2017 0:36:00 GMT
While these are all complex and involve lots of moving parts, I think the actions they involve could still be classed under one overarching "task." There's still a central thing that's being focused on. And for race car drivers and jet pilots, a lot of it becomes second nature and is done without really involving attention at all. Multi-tasking I think of as more about keeping disparate things in mind.
Part of it is preference for me as well. Another part of it relates back to something that was discussed previously, and that's the observation that men are better able to "tune things out" when focusing on a task. The flip side of it is that it's harder for us not to tune things out and so when we try to multitask, one thing ends up drawing our focus and drowning out everything else.
Of course, it goes without saying that these are anecdotal observations of trends and not a cut-and-dry evaluation of what individual men and women would be good at.
DEFINITELY not in the case of a fighter pilot, a pilot has to read the instruments as carefully as checking the surrounding and steering the plane. We are talking about a hundred extremely important instruments here, a dozen weapon systems, a plane flying through the air at up to 1.5 times the speed of sound while engaging one or multiple enemy planes that fire back with rockets that go several times the speed of sound. They even have to make calculations while doing all this. You'd be hard pressed to find anything that requires more multitasking. Its like playing several games at once. They even have a specific term for getting knot in your brain from all the multitasking, its called ''Helmet fire''. Because thats how it feels when you have too much to do simultaneously in a cockpit. Again, I'm not discounting the complexity of the task. I'm saying that (from what I've heard) the point of training to be a fighter pilot is to become so familiar with the process that most of it becomes nearly automatic, allowing the pilot to evaluate and act on something without devoting so much attention to it. Which is slightly different from what I think of when I think about multitasking, which is about dividing your attention equally among multiple things.
*shrug* I could be wrong. I'm not a fighter pilot myself, so I only have a few second hand sources to draw from. But from, those I've encountered the phrase "second nature" keeps coming up.
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Post by Giant Ambush Beetle on Mar 22, 2017 1:15:06 GMT
Even if you are trained to do certain tasks, it is still multitasking. You say as if flying a plane was one single task, but it consists of many tasks that vastly differ from each other. Reading and interpreting the radar and instruments is something very different than trying to dodge rockets with a vehicle that is going mach 1+, but you have to do those things simultaneously, among many other things like operating the weapon systems and communicating with your wingman.
One could as well say that writing documents on the computer while talking to somebody on a telephone is just working in an office, and the people there are trained to do that. But its multitasking just like flying a fighter plane. Just with the latter being much more hardcore.
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Post by sjpelke on Mar 22, 2017 1:20:07 GMT
I tend to agree with the fact that females generally are more 'all over the place' taking me as example. But have to say that if I focuss on a thing it is hard for me to multitask since it means splintering myself which results in lesser result at the prime thing I am doing. Men tend to stay focussed better since they do not allow themselves overall to get distracted by other things/influences imho. If that means not being able to multitask that does not have to be a bad thing since splintering oneself often results in lesser results just more stuff done if that makes sense
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Post by DomeWing333 on Mar 22, 2017 1:48:34 GMT
Even if you are trained to do certain tasks, it is still multitasking. You say as if flying a plane was one single task, but it consists of many tasks that vastly differ from each other. Reading and interpreting the radar and instruments is something very different than trying to dodge rockets with a vehicle that is going mach 1+, but you have to do those things simultaneously, among many other things like operating the weapon systems and communicating with your wingman. One could as well say that writing documents on the computer while talking to somebody on a telephone is just working in an office, and the people there are trained to do that. But its multitasking just like flying a fighter plane. Just with the latter being much more hardcore. Driving a car, while not as complex as operating a plane, also involves multiple components as well (steering, controlling your speed, checking your mirrors, watching the road for obstacles, etc). We don't usually label just driving, even stunt driving, as multi-tasking, though. We see it as one thing: driving a car. And for people who've been driving for a while, it becomes effortless--second nature. They're not thinking about what they're doing; they're just doing it. Combat flight has been described to me in the same way. As an activity that requires immense focus, but still one activity.
Administrative work is more...scattered. You wouldn't describe an events planner's work as "focused," you would say "hectic" and "chaotic." The difficulty in the job comes not in maintain control but in keeping up the chaos--with everything that's being thrown at you. This is the natural state of the occupation, whereas pilots aim to be complete opposite: calm, measured, methodical.
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Post by Giant Ambush Beetle on Mar 22, 2017 1:53:34 GMT
Administrative work is more...scattered. You wouldn't describe an events planner's work as "focused," you would say "hectic" and "chaotic." The difficulty in the job comes not in maintain control but in keeping up the chaos--with everything that's being thrown at you. This is the natural state of the occupation, whereas pilots aim to be complete opposite: calm, measured, methodical. I believe that things get very hectic in a cockpit during a dogfight in the air with high chances of it ending in your own and you wingmans death. I think combat to the death is more hectic and chaotic than being an events planner. Staying calm and controlled is what people always aim for in stressful jobs, but its hard to achieve, especially when your life is at stake.
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Post by DomeWing333 on Mar 22, 2017 2:20:14 GMT
Administrative work is more...scattered. You wouldn't describe an events planner's work as "focused," you would say "hectic" and "chaotic." The difficulty in the job comes not in maintain control but in keeping up the chaos--with everything that's being thrown at you. This is the natural state of the occupation, whereas pilots aim to be complete opposite: calm, measured, methodical. I believe that things get very hectic in a cockpit during a dogfight in the air with high chances of it ending in your own and you wingmans death. I think combat to the death is more hectic and chaotic than being an events planner. Staying calm and controlled is what people always aim for in stressful jobs, but its hard to achieve, especially when your life is at stake. I'm not talking about the environment; I'm talking about the work itself. Things can certainly get hectic for a fighter pilot, but the work itself requires focused attention, in spite of the chaos. By contrast, the nature of the work that an events planner does is itself unfocused. They're running around, doing completely different things in completely different contexts. It's a different skill set. I'm not making any claims about which is harder or more hardcore (for the record, it's being a fighter pilot...obviously).
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2017 3:55:36 GMT
What's a good time frame for when to delete a girl's number for a random acquintance? 3 days, one week, ... You know what Bambam, if the random acquaintance means more to you than the girl, then do her a favor and get rid of it right then and there, don't bother waiting.
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Post by LightningPoodle on Mar 22, 2017 7:01:37 GMT
Does the nice guy ever actually win?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2017 7:45:29 GMT
Does the nice guy ever actually win? Nope.
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Post by LightningPoodle on Mar 22, 2017 8:11:34 GMT
Does the nice guy ever actually win? Nope.
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Post by mattig89ch on Mar 22, 2017 8:36:56 GMT
Does the nice guy ever actually win? I would consider myself a nice guy. And I don't think I've ever won. To be quite honest, I don't think I will ever win.
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Post by nanotm on Mar 22, 2017 12:11:58 GMT
Does the nice guy ever actually win? depends on your definition of winning. i would consider that i'm generally a nice guy, and whilst life is always a rocky road full of trials and tribulations and lament i have a happy home life and have done for the last 22 years whilst all the guys i knew were ass hats suffered terribly with miserable short marragies so i consider that a win for the nice guy team
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Post by DomeWing333 on Mar 22, 2017 17:13:27 GMT
Does the nice guy ever actually win? Sure they can. All being a good guy means is saying "Regardless of whether or not I win, no one will have lost because of me."
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Post by DomeWing333 on Mar 22, 2017 20:03:18 GMT
Suppose you're giving your son or daughter "The Talk." Aside from explaining how the basic mechanics work, what else would you tell them about sex? What would say to your daughter that you wouldn't tell your son and vice-versa?
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Post by BamBam the Destroyer on Mar 22, 2017 21:33:50 GMT
What's a good time frame for when to delete a girl's number for a random acquintance? 3 days, one week, ... Why would you erase a number for a random acquintance ? Probably missed the irony again in that question On another note, is it true that men have a hard time to multitask? That is another one of the stereotypes that go around No, no. The girl IS the random acquaintance. I doubt I will hear from her again. What's a reasonable amount of time to hold on to the number?
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Post by mattig89ch on Mar 23, 2017 5:41:58 GMT
Suppose you're giving your son or daughter "The Talk." Aside from explaining how the basic mechanics work, what else would you tell them about sex? What would say to your daughter that you wouldn't tell your son and vice-versa? I don't think I'd avoid topics or talking points because she was a girl. I think I'd aproach the talk differently, based on their personalties. But which mechanics I'd avoid, and which I wouldn't, not sure. I think it'd be entirely situational. Why would you erase a number for a random acquintance ? Probably missed the irony again in that question On another note, is it true that men have a hard time to multitask? That is another one of the stereotypes that go around No, no. The girl IS the random acquaintance. I doubt I will hear from her again. What's a reasonable amount of time to hold on to the number? The question is, why would you hold onto her number if your not going to talk to her on a regular basis?
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Post by sjpelke on Mar 23, 2017 12:27:54 GMT
Why would you erase a number for a random acquintance ? Probably missed the irony again in that question On another note, is it true that men have a hard time to multitask? That is another one of the stereotypes that go around No, no. The girl IS the random acquaintance. I doubt I will hear from her again. What's a reasonable amount of time to hold on to the number? Depends on if you want to stay in touch yourself and/or what you say about you thinking she does not want to stay in touch with you. Only one way to find out; call her and find out
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2017 21:53:14 GMT
Suppose you're giving your son or daughter "The Talk." Aside from explaining how the basic mechanics work, what else would you tell them about sex? What would say to your daughter that you wouldn't tell your son and vice-versa? How you approach the topic depends a lot on the child's personality, some kids are more shy while others are more logical or emotional, it really is hard to say what/how you would explain things to them without knowing the child in question. I do think it's important to explain the importance of protecting themselves and the person they are with, that the experience should not make them or their partner feel ashamed and openess and trust is an important factor. I don't think there is anything I'd alter, whether I was speaking to a boy or a girl, but I would change the manner I explained things depending on their personality.
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