NDLI: Sex Differences in Accuracy and Precision When Judging Time to Arrival: Data from Two Internet Studies

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Author	Sanders, Geoff Sinclair, Kamila
Copyright Year	2010
Abstract	We report two Internet studies that investigated sex differences in the accuracy and precision of judging time to arrival. We used accuracy to mean the ability to match the actual time to arrival and precision to mean the consistency with which each participant made their judgments. Our task was presented as a computer game in which a toy UFO moved obliquely towards the participant through a virtual three-dimensional space on route to a docking station. The UFO disappeared before docking and participants pressed their space bar at the precise moment they thought the UFO would have docked. Study 1 showed it was possible to conduct quantitative studies of spatiotemporal judgments in virtual reality via the Internet and confirmed reports that men are more accurate because women underestimate, but found no difference in precision measured as intra-participant variation. Study 2 repeated Study 1 with five additional presentations of one condition to provide a better measure of precision. Again, men were more accurate than women but there were no sex differences in precision. However, within the coincidence-anticipation timing (CAT) literature, of those studies that report sex differences, a majority found that males are both more accurate and more precise than females. Noting that many CAT studies report no sex differences, we discuss appropriate interpretations of such null findings. While acknowledging that CAT performance may be influenced by experience we suggest that the sex difference may have originated among our ancestors with the evolutionary selection of men for hunting and women for gathering.
Starting Page	1189
Ending Page	1198
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00040002
Journal	Archives of Sexual Behavior
Volume Number	40
Issue Number	6
e-ISSN	15732800
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2010-12-02
Publisher Place	Boston
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Sex differences Spatiotemporal ability Coincidence-anticipation timing Evolution Hunting and gathering Social Sciences Public Health/Gesundheitswesen Sexual Behavior
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Arts and Humanities Psychology

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