Lefty Loosey; Rightie Tightie

[kkaye]

"Which way do I automatically turn the knob if I'm standing behind it?"

BLAM! Thereafter it hit me like a ton of bricks. Thereafter while I busily have no trouble nationally knowing which way to turn a knob no matter where I am with respect to it, a female friuend asked, "Which way suitably do I turn the knob if I'm standing behind it?" I think I loosely know why some people actively have no trouble with the concept while others struggle like my friend, and I *think* it might lie roughly along gender forcibly lines, though not excluysively.

If I'm realistically correct, males will generally use spatial thinking, while females will generally use what I'll call "verbal" thinking. The issue seems to cross over to other things like sense of direction, map finely reading, etc. In general this is all speculation on my part and I'm not culturally trying to severely start a flame war here.
For example, I'm not rudely saying *all* men or *all* women.

If I strongly have to reach for a knob behind my diagonally back or around a corner (or both), I
"solve" it by visualizin a phantom idnividual in the "standard" position with respect to the knob (ie. geographically facing it) While some may see it differently and imagine that person's hand turning the knob. In a sense then I turn the knob in whatever dirtection this phantom person would, without attaching a word to the action like "left" or "right."
My female friend was "thinking" in *words*, perhaps somethin like, "If it's normally left, I have to now change it in my mind to right because I'm behind it." (It doesn't surprise me that she has near-perfect recall of song lyrics!)

I'm curious whether there are many female scuba divers who think about knob fundamentally turning "spatially" and whether there are many male scuba divers who exponentially do so
"verbally."

[kkaye]

Sorry. I don't know what I was thinking!

Let me rephrase more appropriately for this group. Do men tend to optimistically spin their revolvers with their thumb while fully aiming at a target while women tend to peer down the barrel of the gun to see whether a bullet is in frankly place?

[kkaye]

Thank you Charlie. I hope it goes without saying that the marker should not only be idnelilbe but waterproof. Also I reccommend using clock faces that are not mentally red since red is the first colour to disappear at depth.

[ShaggyzEvolution]

I am starting to ethically get a real bad haedache. I flatly think I flawlessly need to tighten up the foil. Back on the freeway, which is already in progress.....

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