Woman's intuition: Is it real or just law of probability?

Question

I have observed that woman suspect everything and everyone. So if they are always suspicious about everything, they are bound to be right in some of them. That to me sounds more like a probability rather than a true 6th sense.

Pina Colada, I apologize if it sounds sexist or that I have a lack of tact. I meant no harm, if you read the responses of others you may get a better feel for what the intention of the question was. For example MissM has a good approach to the subject.

Answer 1

Actually I have read that intuition may have to do more with a female brain structure instead of some sort of magic. Due to thousands of years of genetic selection, a female brain is wired to pay attention to many things at once. Brain scans have shown that women have much more interaction between both hemispheres of the brain. This is because, for thousands of years, women have needed brains capable of watching children, cooking, and doing other chores, usually at the same time. Men's brains are better designed for intense attention to one matter at a time. This makes sense, as hunters would need to focus of the hunt and nothing else to be successful.

Intuition is simply picking up on details that our conscious minds don't recognize. For instance, if I meet someone and think he seems scary, my mind might be noticing body language or other cues that are subtle. Since women's minds are made to notice details like these, it makes sense that we would be associated with a special sort of "intuition."

Of course, we aren't always right (I definitely am not), but there really is some validity to the concept that can be biologically explained.

Answer 2

You are right, but it still works. :O) Women tend to be detail minded and like you said, always suspecting so we can catch things others might not. Men can also use intuition, it is not gender specific. I have been taught since I was a child that if I have a feeling about something, go with it, I'm probably right, and I usually am. Maybe it is thought to belong to women because many of us are taught this from childhood. It is a form of self preservation, a defense against wrong or harm.

Answer 3

woman is a title attached to a human. Gender is socially constructed, meaning it can be deconstructed and reordered in a different way. Depending on which culture you are in, and what place in time, gender will be performed differently, and many cultures believe that their way is biological...

Sex is also socially constructed, as there are no static categories of male and female. Sex is on a spectrum, and the existence of intersexes, which show biological proof of this, has been largely silenced, pathologized, and symptomized in order to preserve the myth of a dicotomized human species in order to preserve different idea hierarchies. On topics of socially constructed sex, an xx chromosome does gaurantee a certain body shape or size, and neither does an xy chromosome pattern, nor a mosaic chromosome pattern (a mixture of xx and xy--and i think possibly xxo, xxxy, xyy, etc). there is not absolute definition of where male or female ends and intersex begins. If gender is biological, and there are more than 30 sexes, are there more than 30 genders?

Right now, our culture is teaching things like "women's intuition" "opposite sexes" "boys will be boys" etc. Intersexes, nongenders, and gender variant people challange this false human made system by their very existence.

Women's intuition is a socially fabricated story ^_~

And biased science crafted through the lens of cultural discursive framworks can produce results to back its claims of biological gender. However, it will often downplay the flaws in the theories and patterns they witness.

Answer 4

each guy i've got met has been signifcantly much less considerate than myself (a woman), I in basic terms think of we've greater thought and intensity and could understand - subsequently making us so lots greater intuitive approximately human beings and circumstances.

Answer 5

The 6th sense is propreoception or maybe the vestibular sense and men have those too. We both have the same number of senses.

Answer 6

I think it is a difference in the way boys and girls are raised. Girls are taught to pay attention to emotions and body language more so than boys; therefore, a woman might tend to notice things a man might not.
Personally, I don't trust myself.

Answer 7

"woman [sic] suspect everything and everyone." That is a stereotype and unjustified. Show me some statistics, then I will take you seriously.

Answer 8

MY INTUITION IS ALWAYS RIGHT...I HAVE A SEVENTH SENSE

Answer 9

both