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The Amateur Parker


Women are Better Parkers Than Men


By Melissa Bean Sterzick


The battle of the sexes is a war that will never end. Nobody’s going to give up and nobody’s going to win.


Whatever stereotypes we choose to apply, men will always be the dolts who pee on the toilet seat and waste hours watching bas- ketball on TV, and women will always be the airheads who are overly obsessed with their hair, decorating and shopping. Guys can’t cook, change a diaper or pick up after themselves;


chicks hog the bathroom, forget to have their oil changed, and accidentally fudge up the DVR settings so “Dancing With the Stars” preempts several pivotal games during March Madness. Men are boneheads and women are prima donnas. Reverse the stereotypes or apply them to culture, science,


politics or sports, and the outcome is the same. However you want to put it, we are different. But women came out well ahead in a recent skirmish, and it’s


with great pleasure I announce something half the world already suspected and the other half will deny and then forget completely. A parking lot operator in the United Kingdom called Nation- al Car Parks (NCP) conducted a monthlong study in which it


evaluated how men and women park. To create a “parking coeffi- cient,” the NCP Parking Report covered different aspects of park- ing, including technique, accuracy and time taken to park. The study, carried out among 2,500 drivers by NCP, revealed


that out of a maximum score of 20, women have an average park- ing coefficient of 13.4. The average score for men was 12.3. Women proved their superiority in several important areas:


They drove more slowly through the lot and so found a parking spot faster; their “pre-parking pose” was more accurate; and they parked in the center of their stall more reliably than men. To summarize further: Women scored better at following speed limits – 92% did vs.


just 64% of men. Men parked 5 seconds faster, but only 25% of them ended up in the center of the parking stall on their first attempt, compared with 53% of women. About 77% of women take the time to find the correct “approach angle” to a parking spot vs. 53% of men.


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