So, it's official, Women are better at parking! :-O

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NCP have undertaken the largest study on gender differences with parking by observing 2500 drivers across its 700 car parks for 1 month.

Using 7 key components to asses them and produce a final "parking coefficient" score out of 20, women scored 13.4 and men 12.3 :o

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/new...etter-at-parking-than-men-study-suggests.html

The first category analysed people’s ability to find spaces. Researchers found that impatience caused many men to drive too quickly around car parks, meaning they missed free bays. Meanwhile, women’s slower approach meant they were better able to notice spaces, or spot when other drivers were about to leave.

More than three quarters of women were found to excel in their so-called “pre-parking pose”, setting themselves up to pull into a space, compared to just over half of men observed.

Thirty-nine per cent of female drivers cleanly executed reversing into spaces, compared to only 28 per cent of men.

Men were much quicker at parking, taking 16 seconds on average against the 21 seconds women needed to complete the manoeuvre.

However, the extra time paid off leaving 52 per cent of women parked in the middle of each bay, compared to 25 per cent of men. This category proved particularly punishing for the men’s rating as it was the most heavily weighted in the coefficient.
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Men of the nation....we have let ourselves down! :p
 
Biggest problem I find is that most carparks have spaces designed for nothing bigger than a Ka.
 
Recently I, and the rest of the entire population of Oxford were blocked by a parking women. After almost getting her car in the space to the point I began to edge forward, she then lurched forward and honked the horn to inform me she wasn't finished. Then, despite the accumulated traffic, she did... I can barely comprehend in typing now... Did a 3 point turn then preceded to parallel park the other way round.

o_O
 
Mrs Edrof is the best driver I've ever been driven by. Although she does take aaaaaaages to find a suitable parking spot, sometimes.
 
Did they also rate their ability to ram their full trolley into your wing or allow their offspring to fling their doors wide open?

I demand segregated car parking! :(
 
The finding a space part is a bit silly, should just be how good they are at parking not also finding the spaces.
 
Nitefly said:
Recently I, and the rest of the entire population of Oxford were blocked by a parking women. After almost getting her car in the space to the point I began to edge forward, she then lurched forward and honked the horn to inform me she wasn't finished. Then, despite the accumulated traffic, she did... I can barely comprehend in typing now... Did a 3 point turn then preceded to parallel park the other way round.

o_O
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Some people! You should have filmed it for YouTube like the recent Bath incident. :D
 
They should have only done it on one metric. How many collisions made by the people attempting to park. I'd be interested in that statistic.
 
Bad average statistics are bad. If we all realise that on average we can all park with a level of competence that both avoids a collision and holding others up then all we care about is the bottom ~10% and who is /really/ bad.
 
I wonder, did they take into account different car sizes for this (to ensure it's not car size which is the indicator for how well a person can park).

So often they get people without a clue about statistics to do this kind of thing - besides a 5.5% difference in score for a population of 2500 is not that significant.
 
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