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[Grotesque]

The Slippery Case of the Missing Butter

Every woman in the world has had the following conversation with a male who is standing in front of an open fridge

David: “Where is the butter
?”

Sara: “It’s in the fridge
”

David: “I’m looking there, but I can’t see any butter

Sara: Well, it’s there. I put it in ten minutes ago
!”

David: “No. You must have put it somewhere else. There is definitely no butter in this fridge

At that, Sara strides into the kitchen, thrusts her arms into the fridge and, as if by magic, produces a tub of butter. Inexperienced men sometimes feel that this is a trick and they accuse women of always hiding thing from them in drawers and cupboards. Socks, shoes, underwear, jam, butter car keys, wallets-they are all there, they just can’t see them. With her wider arc of peripheral vision a woman can see most of the obects in a fridge or a cupboard without moving her head. Her estrogen hormones allows her to identify matching items in a drawer, cupboard or across a room and later remembers objects in a complex random pattern such as where the butter or jam in the refrigerator. New research also suggests that male brains are searching in the fridge for the word B-U-T-T-E-R. If it’s facing the wrong way, he virtually can’t see it. This is why men move their heads. Men move their heads from side to side and up and down as they scan for the “missing” objects.

[Grotesque]

The eyes have it all

Women not only have a greater variety of cones in the retina, they also have wider peripheral vision than men. As a nest-defender, a woman has brain software that allows her to receive an arc of at least 45 degrees clear vision to each side of her head and above and below her nose. A man’s eyes are larger than a woman’s and his brain configures them for a type of long distance tunnel vision which means that he can see clearly and accurately directly in front of him and over greater distance, almost like a pair of binoculars. As a hunter, a man needed vision that would allow him to zero in on, and pursue, targets in the distance. He evolved with almost blinkered vision so what he would not be distracted from targets, whereas a woman needed eyes to allow a wide arc of vision so that she could monitor any predators sneaking up on the nest. In the UK in 1997, there were 4,132 child pedestrians killed or injured on the roads, of which 2,640 where boys and 1,492 were girls. Boys take more risks crossing the road than girls and this, combined with poorer peripheral vision, increases their injury rate. You can increase your peripheral vision range with practice, just as fighter pilots do

“Women have wider peripheral vision, men have tunnel vision”