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Men no worse than women in asking for directions
Orlando, Fla. (Dec. 15) -- With more than 63 million people projected
to travel by car during the upcoming Christmas-New Year’s holidays, it
is reasonable to expect that more than a few of them will get lost. The
good news for those wayward trekkers is new research from AAA suggests
that, contrary to popular belief, men are just as likely to stop to ask
for directions as women are, and there is no real difference in the
genders' likelihood to get lost when traveling together.
"Men get lost and seek help at about the same rate women do despite, or
perhaps because of, decades of hearing, 'Honey, just stop and ask for
directions,'" said Jan Coyne, director, AAA Geographic Information
Systems, the area responsible for AAAmaps.com and Internet TripTik.
"The perception that men are more reticent to ask for directions may
stem from the fact that when couples travel together, men do the
driving 78 percent of the time," said Coyne, referring to a 2001 study
by the Federal Highway Administration.
In the AAA study, men who were lost stopped to ask for directions 34
percent of the time and women, 37 percent, figures that researchers say
are too close to conclude that a difference exists.
Couples in the study often tried to find the correct route themselves
and most were lost for less than 30 minutes before getting back on
their way. A scant 0.5 percent were lost for more than four hours, and
another 0.7 percent never did make it to their destination.
More good news from the study is that, by far, it appears that
Americans are not getting lost very often. Out of more than 2,000
randomly selected U. S. adults in the study only 156 reported being
lost while driving with their spouse or significant other in the past
two years.
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