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[Travis]

Women who navigate around 3D computer-generated environments for a living - or even for fun - are having their style cramped by ultra-narrow computer displays and graphics software that favours men.

Female architects, designers, trainee pilots and even computer gamers should be given much wider computer screens, a team of computer scientists from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Microsoft's research lab in Redmond, Washington, told a computer usability conference in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, last week. Wider screens and more realistic 3D animations, they say, will boost women's spatial orientation and 3D map-reading skills to match those of their male counterparts....
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http://www.newscient...p?id=ns99993628

[Blake]

Perhaps the real reason men do better than the women, is we have been lay video-games for , years. Most women have not. All of the other mumbo jumbo about hunting and gathering seems a bit far fetched.

A good articles though