Different life experience means different perspectives

My Note: We’re all having different experiences and no one is “right” about anything really.

Even stuff considered to be factual can actually be experience-based.

Even scientific research. especially scientific research.

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So, we’re colder. I actually thought the higher body fat % would keep us warmer, but no – it means there’s a layer of fat separating our blood vessels from our skin, so our skin doesn’t warm up as much. (We do have warmer core temperatures, but since you’re not actually at risk of freezing to death at the office, this is not particularly relevant.)

Studies on many species of birds and mammals report that males commonly congregate in cooler areas where there is shade, while females and offspring stay in warmer environments where there is sunlight.

Male bats prefer to rest at the cool, high peaks of mountains, whereas females remain in the warmer valleys.

(Middle-age bats doing tired standup routines about how men be sleeping on mountain peaks and women be sleeping in valleys.)

The links in that paragraph are all to research.

This journal article reckons the cold-feeling disparity (I mean, “sexual segregation in endotherms”) might be because babies are terrible at keeping themselves warm enough to not die, so making mothers feel cold encourages them to take the babies to warm places and sleep next to them.

This whole thing is why arguments about who’s “right” about whether the heater/AC should be on are stupid. Or like, “coriander is delicious!” “no, coriander tastes like a rotting dishrag!” You’re having different experiences. You’re not going to verbally bulldoze someone into speeding up their metabolic rate or switching out their OR6A2 gene. Give it up.

(OR6A2 is the gene that makes coriander taste disgusting.)