More studies upon studies studying the obvious that people don’t want to accept because men are supposed to be on the bottom the totem pole in modern society on the victim scale. Because big bad men suppress everyone else!
We just “can’t figure it out” these days that society knew long ago...
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“Study after study has shown that men have a higher tolerance for pain than women, according to researchers who seem to be making some progress in figuring out why. ...
Even giving women more of an incentive to compete with pain tolerance women can’t keep up.
“Here was our thinking,” Fillingim says. Men are motivated to suppress pain, and if women aren’t equally motivated, then some reward might boost the pain tolerance among women but not among men because men are already motivated. A little reward might sort of level the playing field.
So 81 folks agreed to stick their hand in a bucket of swirling ice water to see how long they could stand the pain. Some were offered $1 to keep it in the near-freezing water for five minutes, others $20, so the researchers could determine if a higher reward made any difference than the lesser, which amounted to just a nickel for every 15 seconds.
The researchers thought the motivated females would keep their hands in the water longer than they would without the monetary motivation, thus narrowing the gap between Tarzan and Jane because now the females were motivated to stand the pain.
But “we got the complete reversal of what we expected,” Fillingim says.
There wasn’t any difference for the females. But the men who were offered up to $20 lasted longer than the men who were offered just one lousy buck. “
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=97662&page=1
Perhaps that study just shows women have more sense than men.