Comments on: Women are bigger wimps than men? http://polyscience.org/2005/07/women-are-bigger-wimps-than-men/ Mon, 08 Mar 2010 03:15:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: polyscience.org » Virtual reality offers hope for veterans http://polyscience.org/2005/07/women-are-bigger-wimps-than-men/comment-page-1/#comment-114 polyscience.org » Virtual reality offers hope for veterans Tue, 23 Aug 2005 14:47:16 +0000 http://polyscience.org/?p=3#comment-114 [...] I’ve mentioned virtual reality technology in the past, specifically how it can be used to aid those undergoing skin grafts (last paragraph). Virtual reality is back in the news, this time how it can help those dealing with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder from battlefield situations. [...] [...] I’ve mentioned virtual reality technology in the past, specifically how it can be used to aid those undergoing skin grafts (last paragraph). Virtual reality is back in the news, this time how it can help those dealing with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder from battlefield situations. [...]

]]> By: fitten http://polyscience.org/2005/07/women-are-bigger-wimps-than-men/comment-page-1/#comment-34 fitten Wed, 03 Aug 2005 15:42:37 +0000 http://polyscience.org/?p=3#comment-34 [Somehow I can’t see many men volunteering to have their innards stretched to simulate childbirth]

Considering that the female body has appropriate organs and other physiology to support birthing a child and the male body does not have any such physiology, stretching the innards of a male isn’t anything but torture and would not, in any way, simulate child birth so even that “test” would yield no usable results.

]]> By: polyscience.org » Bullets: Stress, Computer games, IQ, &c… http://polyscience.org/2005/07/women-are-bigger-wimps-than-men/comment-page-1/#comment-12 polyscience.org » Bullets: Stress, Computer games, IQ, &c… Wed, 20 Jul 2005 13:27:42 +0000 http://polyscience.org/?p=3#comment-12 [...] In the case of video games, there are more effective ways of killing pain without pain killers in extreme circumstances, as I outlined here a few weeks ago, particularly in the case of burn victims. But as someone who compulsively picked at his scalp as a child, I can guarantee you that I wouldn’t have done it if I had a computer game to occupy my hands most of the time. [...] [...] In the case of video games, there are more effective ways of killing pain without pain killers in extreme circumstances, as I outlined here a few weeks ago, particularly in the case of burn victims. But as someone who compulsively picked at his scalp as a child, I can guarantee you that I wouldn’t have done it if I had a computer game to occupy my hands most of the time. [...]

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