I never used to have much of a sense of direction, and then I went to work in a business where I regularly had to find parcels that were drawn on fairly terrible maps.
I have a little trouble sometimes if I've flown into a new city, but my sense of direction and my ability to dead-reckon my way around is much better than it used to be. This has led me to think that all that "men are better than women at wayfinding, because hunting so evolution" is probably bullshit, and that men are often better than women at wayfinding because men often have jobs where they wayfind all the time and it's a SKILL at which one improves with practice. I consistently test as "male" on direction and spatial-orientation tests now, which I certainly did not as a young adult.
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Date: 2014-11-03 12:28 am (UTC)I have a little trouble sometimes if I've flown into a new city, but my sense of direction and my ability to dead-reckon my way around is much better than it used to be. This has led me to think that all that "men are better than women at wayfinding, because hunting so evolution" is probably bullshit, and that men are often better than women at wayfinding because men often have jobs where they wayfind all the time and it's a SKILL at which one improves with practice. I consistently test as "male" on direction and spatial-orientation tests now, which I certainly did not as a young adult.