Women talk three times as much as men, says study

[Yavin4]

"In fact, women talk almost three times as much as men, with the average woman chalking up 20,000 words in a day - 13,000 more than the average man...The book - written by a female psychiatrist - says that inherent differences between the male and female brain explain why women are naturally more talkative than men."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=419040&in_page_id=1879

Comments?

[Dangerously Amused]

1. We process three times as much information because we're three times smarter.

[cwydro]

13. Heh heh

Love it!

[Porcupine]

32. Words spoken does not equate to information processed. Ask a junior high teacher.

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[BlueIris]

2. Oh, nooooooooo! Women using words! We can't have that!

Next, they'll want rights! The horror!

[johnnie]

3. Wooo hoooo...

I wanna see the twists and turns on this one.

:woohoo:

[jobycom]

4. yeah right. Measure the length of my posts against ANYONE else's here

I can babble better than any female I've ever met. Couldn't get my wife to talk to me for two minutes, usually.

Studies prove whatever they were commissioned to prove.

[BreweryYardRat]

5. No shit.

A lot of them talk even more than that.

[PVnRT]

6. *grunt*

...

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

7. ... and what they say is 1/3 as meaningful.

:D :hide::yoiks:

[Hosnon]

15. Hehe...

I agree unless my girl reads this.

[SoyCat]

8. They don't know my husband...

[undeterred]

9. Another way of saying men don't communicate?

Except for grunts and one word answers... :hide:

[mongo]

24. Huh?

*snort*

[matcom]

10. but if there isn't a man around to hear her....

does she THEN make sense?

:hide:

:D

[xchrom]

11. if women hadn't tossed us out into the cold to chase down

those woolly mammoths -- maybe we'd talk more.

now we're afraid there's more chores -- outside -- in the cold.

with nothing but spears and big ol'humpy men for company -- what were we talking about?

[kwassa]

12. Wow! Only three times?

they don't know some of the women I dated ....

had something to do with "word" and "edgewise"

[buddhamama]

14. i am probably an exception to the rule

when it comes to talking. in general i am not a very talkative person. I walk fast because i am short and need to keep up.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

16. You and me, my friend.

If you're ever out this way, let me know, ok?

I like being with people who are comfortable with silence. :toast:

[buddhamama]

45. you betcha

quiet time with GoG would be sublime! :bounce: :hi:

[pitohui]

17. i find that hard to believe

i doubt i average 1,000 words a day, it sounds awful to say it but my husband can talk for hours and never notice that i haven't said anything except, "no kidding" and "uh huh"

don't you other ladies even pretend you don't know what i'm talking about :-)

[Name removed]

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[Pale Blue Dot]

19. I like sports.

Y'know?

[Sanity Claws]

20. Do you need directions to get to the stadium?

Or do you want me to fetch you a beer while you slouch on the barcolounger?

[Pale Blue Dot]

21. A beer, babe.

nt

[Sanity Claws]

22. You are a man of few words.

Our messages are a perfect example of that study's conclusion.

[Pale Blue Dot]

23. Uh-huh.

Ummm... the game's on, OK?

[Zookeeper]

33. Or just give up on talking....

I've just pared it down to the essentials.

[alarimer]

37. I like your answer the best n/t

[Starbucks Anarchist]

25. Sorry, I didn't hear you.

The woman next to me won't stop talking. :hide:

[Avalux]

26. Hmmm. I don't talk that much.

I never have, and I really don't like talking on the phone at all. Now writing....that's different. ;)

[Zookeeper]

30. Same for me....

I hate talking on the phone and am not that great at "chit-chat." E-mailing and writing are easier.

[ismnotwasm]

27. I don't care who talks more --some of this is bullshit

"And, if that wasn't enough, the simple act of talking triggers a flood of brain chemicals which give women a rush similar to that felt by heroin addicts when they get a high."

Um. No, in no way. Don't ask how I know either.

I tend to agree with this more:

"Deborah Cameron, an Oxford University linguistics professor with a special interest in language and gender, said the amount we talk is influenced by who we are with and what we are doing.

She added: "If you aggregate a large number of studies you will find there is little difference between the amount men and women talk."

[KamaAina]

28. Fatti maschii, parole femine

"Deeds are for men and words are for women", amazingly, still the motto of my native Maryland. :eyes:

[Xipe Totec]

35. Men are TCP/IP, Women are UDP/IP

men use single socket connections. Women broadcast.

[belladonna]

29. They haven't met my SO

He can out talk ANYONE... male or female... any damn day of the week. There is at least one other DU'er who met us who can vouch for THAT! The man even talks in his sleep :7

[idgiehkt]

31. my Dad is much the same

my mother just sits there with a big dumb smile on her face, for the last 40 years.
And then there was the British guy who was over at their house on Thanksgiving. He could run a whole telethon by himself...which was fine because I just kept asking him questions, like pumping quarters into a slot machine.

[RevCheesehead]

34. Oh?

Doubt it.

[pink-o]

36. OMFG!!!!

What a SHOCK!!! :sarcasm: I never would have guessed!

Men are spacial and women are verbal. Gawd, I'd love to repudiate the sexism in that argument, but unfortunately it's always been true in my case. I must've gotten a 900 on my SAT test in the 70s--and 800 of that was the English portion!!!

But there's hope: I did read that spacial skills kick in for women and verbal for men around late teens or early 20s. I'm certainly better in maths and science than I was when I was a kid.

And I bet more men would be more verbal if the women around them gave 'em an opportunity to talk!

(But don't look to me! Ask anyone who knows me, I never shut up!)

[Manifestor_of_Light]

38. It depends on who you are, who you are with

Speaking of "men are spatial" and "women are verbal", when I was four I was tested for several days by school psychologists. I could already read fluently at four, and they needed to figure out how to put me in school since I was way over ready for school.


I know I took a Stanford-Binet and maybe an Otis-Wechsler. Anyway I messed up their assumptions because I did just as well on the 3-d stuff (this is a flat house cutout, which put together house will it make?) as I did on the verbal parts. (Edith Ann voice): So THERE.

Besides, if women can't think in three dimensions, yet they are supposed to sew, don't they have to take flat pattern pieces and visualize how they fit together when they are put together on a 3-d person's body??? Never understood that one.

[NewJeffCT]

48. the opportunity to talk is important

Not long after I first met my now ex-wife, she had called me up on the phone and she talked to me for a good 2 hours, or more. As she was saying good-bye, she said, "and it was really nice talking to you," to which I responded, "and it was really nice listening to you."

However, I'm guessing you could easily double the 20,000 words per day for my ex, while simultaneously halving the male total for me. I tell people that before we got married, I didn't speak to her for a month - because I didn't want to interrupt her while she was talking!

[hsher]

39. Uh-oh... I better duck down

Then again, there was that study that concluded men listen 2/3 less intently than do women...

:hide:

[pokerfan]

40. Sounds about right

A husband, proving to his wife that women talk more than men, showed her a study which indicated that men use on the average only 7,000 words a day, whereas women use 20,000 words a day.

She thought about this for awhile and then told her husband that women use twice as many words as men because they have to repeat everything they say.

He said, "What?"

----------------------------------

LLOYD: What happened, Harry? Some little filly break your heart?

HARRY: Nah, it was a girl. Boy, I thought we'd be together forever. (SIGHS) Then about a week later, right out of the blue, she sends me a John Deere letter.

LLOYD: That's cold, Har. Give you any reason?

HARRY: I called her up and she gave me some crap about me not listening to her enough or something like that. I wasn't really paying attention.

:rofl:

[ForrestGump]

41. No wonder we never listen to 'em

:o


Not that I can speak (actually, I can) -- never let a PhD, males most of all, get near a microphone and a lectern.

I usually run hot and cold...verbose (especially once you get to know me) and silent.

I don't know if my wife talked more than me. I would go on about nature, or whatever, and she'd tell me what to do and how to be...I may have used more words, but she got more results ('til I stopped jumping to her commands). She accused me all the time of not listening, and she was right; the reason I didn't listen was that, for many years, I didn't like what I was hearing.

[Solon]

42. I say the study is both bullshit and reality...

Its the whole nature vs. nurture argument all over again. That "sweet spot" between the ages of 0-4 or 5 years old greatly determines a child's abilities in a whole range of skills, verbal, spatial, mathematics, etc. Little boys and little girls are RAISED differently in most cases, and this affects the brain's wiring in profound ways. The brain re-wires itself as new experiences and new skills are learned, some "stick" more than others, a classic example is learning to ride a bike, something that is taught to children at an early age, and usually, as adults, we never forgot that skill.

Of course, its not always so cut and dried, but most kids, I would say, are a blank slate, with everything from their parents and extended family, to Television and the larger culture, writing on that slate. I've seen a baby girl, not even old enough to walk yet, crawl over to her male cousin's newest toy, one of those "tool" toys, with big plastic hammer, screwdriver, along with screws and nails, of sorts, all in a big shiny truck. She sat in front of it, grabbed the hammer, and hit the nail several times, and started clapping a giggling because its fun. Does this mean she's predestined to become a contractor or carpenter, no, of course not, but it does illustrate that certain skills and INTEREST in those skills aren't something we are born in to, but learned instead.

If a boy is given a car to play with, especially at a young age, and sees his parents are pleased with him playing with it, he will want to please his parents, especially when REALLY young, and he will even learn to enjoy playing with that car. The same thing with girls and dolls, or any other activity. Granted, in the future the child will develop more interests, some that abide by larger stereotypes that are present in the culture they are raised in and others that don't. Perhaps the best thing for parents to do is to be as observant of the child as the child surely is of the parent, and encourage those skills through play, that the child enjoys most.

I've been babysitting my "nephew"(son of my sister's fiance's sister, talk about confusing!:)). When he is over, he's 2 and a half, when I have the TV on, its on one of the Educational channels. He will walk into a room with the TV on, and he saw a Tyrannosaurus Rex on the TV, a preview for the show "Inside a T-Rex" on the Science channel. This was only a few days ago, but he was totally ecstatic about it. Right now, its "T-Rex" this and "T-Rex" that. He's been watching a bunch of paleontology shows with me and just 2 days ago, he found a rock in my backyard and rushes up to me yelling "shell" the entire time. So I look at the rock, and low and behold, there are not one, but 3 fossils of ancient clam shells embedded in the rock. They are quite almost invisible, but once you see them they are obvious after the fact.

To be honest, around here, where limestone deposits from an ancient inland sea are common, finding the clam shell was unremarkable by itself, but the fact that HE found it is significant. Its now the start of, I hope, a lifetime pursuit of this stuff. He seems to be a budding paleontologist, but then again, he also likes looking at pictures of planets and stuff. I try not to limit him, he has a LOT of potential, he just needs a guide rather than a teacher right now.

Now, the question is, if, for the sake of argument, he was female, would this hypothetical-she react differently?

[SmileyBoy]

43. I am the male exception to the rule.

I'm very talkative and energetic in person. I probably speak more than 20,000 words per day myself...

[Courtesy Flush]

44. And men can only HEAR 7000 words per day n/t

[donheld]

46. And men can only HEAR 7000 words per day

But our listening cuts off at about 1000 words a day. :D

[Phillycat]

47. In other news, water is wet!

[Bassic]

50. I also heard that snow is cold! nt

[Bassic]

49. I can believe that.

Yap yap yap.

It is the reason I'm considering selling my tv. :)