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reallynotburner t1_iw2zd6m wrote

American fighter jets used a woman's voice on the cockpit voice warning system. In earlier tests pilots reacted quicker and more correctly to "her" warnings than to the test male voice. More recent testing has debunked the perceived female voice advantages, but for 30 years the voice was by a woman.

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dben29775 t1_iw35z7j wrote

Don’t make brains perceive female voices in the same way they perceive music? I remember seeing that awhile back, probably even on this subreddit.

Edit: This is the article and this is the study I was referring to

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EVOSexyBeast t1_iw37p6v wrote

All brains perceive all voices similar to music, as they are going through the ear and being processed in the auditory cortex in the temporal lobe.

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GalacticShonen t1_iw3b72c wrote

That last link is still just an article about a study, where is the actual paper? It doesn't make any mention of music. They only tested 12 people, and they were all men? That's a very small and not diverse sample size. They mention melody in quotes to describe the tonal variance between male and female voices but that is not what melody means. It's hard to say exactly what the author meant when i can't find the actual published paper making me question if it was peer reviewed to begin with.

And to clear up any confusion, music and language have overlapping cognitive resources as music is suggested to be a precursor form of communication for our species.

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T0WERM0NKEY t1_iw4fs1z wrote

You mean higher pitched voices that people generally attach the female gender label to?

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dben29775 t1_iwrum7y wrote

I can’t make that distinction because I didn’t do the study, but I would assume it’s related to register, yeah.

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KiwasiGames t1_iw6bkmm wrote

Another possibility is that the cultural contexts pilots came from and existed in changed over those thirty years. Human psychology isn’t a constant.

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reallynotburner t1_iw7ewbc wrote

My hypothesis was that they used shittier science. Yours is a more likely scenario.

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KiwasiGames t1_iwax6sx wrote

It’s psychology, so yours is entirely possible. Historical psychological experimentation has been plagued with societal bias. And todays sometimes isn’t much better.

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choke_da_wokes t1_iw41qc2 wrote

Lies! Dudes hate hearing women give them orders! Exception: if they’re husbands then muscle memory causes them to act

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