Women No More Chattier Than Men, Study Finds
#1
Posted 05 July 2007 - 12:53 PM
Women no more chattier than men, study finds
05/07/2007 2:29:11 PM
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We've all been led to believe that women love nothing more than to gab all day, while men are more likely to keep silent. But new research challenges the notion.
Matthias R. Mehl, an assistant professor of psychology at The University of Arizona, set out to debunk the growing "urban legend" that a woman uses about three times as many words in a day as a man.
He particularly wanted to challenge the findings in the bestselling book "The Female Brain" by neuropsychiatrist Louann Brizendine that contends that women use 20,000 words a day, while a man uses only about 7,000.
Mehl and the others recorded the conversations of nearly 400 U.S. and Mexican male and female university students who were between the ages of 19 and 25 years old in a series of studies conducted over six years.
To catch all of this chit-chat, they developed an electronically-activated recorder that digitally logged the daily conversations of those who wore the device. The participants could not control the recording device, which automatically recorded for 30 seconds every 12.5 minutes, and did not know when the device was on.
The results:
Women in the study spoke a daily average of 16,215 words
Men spoke an average of 15,669 words
So true, the women win, but not by a statistically significant margin. Mehl also noted that there are "very large individual differences around this mean."
Among the three most talkative males in the study, one used 47,000 words. The least talkative male spoke just a little more than 500," Mehl said.
The research is reported in the July 6 issue of the journal Science.
Mehl admits that he studied only college students, but says the study showed no support for the idea that women have larger "lexical budgets" than men, any more than it did that vocabulary gender differences have a basis in evolution.
But the last word, at least from this study, is that "the widespread and highly publicized stereotype about female talkativeness and male reticence is unfounded."
#2
Posted 05 July 2007 - 01:03 PM
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Posted 05 July 2007 - 02:01 PM
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Posted 05 July 2007 - 11:22 PM
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Posted 06 July 2007 - 11:01 PM
#6
Posted 06 March 2008 - 05:38 PM
Personally as a woman, I would think that very talkative males are more "genigabla".
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Posted 06 March 2008 - 06:41 PM
#8
Posted 06 March 2008 - 06:50 PM
Gitem, gitem.. shat kichernen (parapner@n en) aytpes. Bayc izur chen asel vor tghamardu bambasanq@ aghjka tun yev YEKEGHECI k@kandi.
#9
Posted 06 March 2008 - 07:02 PM
And come to think of it I didn't think about it; but EM has something there. When men talk about other people; and some talk about other women, they can do a great deal of harm to some girls' names. Or to family people too. That is very true.
#10
Posted 06 March 2008 - 07:10 PM
Gitem, gitem.. shat kichernen (parapner@n en) aytpes. Bayc izur chen asel vor tghamardu bambasanq@ aghjka tun yev YEKEGHECI k@kandi.
Em jan, im zokanchs ham ira masina xosum, ham axchka, im, vortus, LIDAI (te ove sa espes el chhaskatsa) nuynisk shans hoqebanaki vra ela azdel.
eh, toghnumen vor mart xosi?
#11
Posted 07 March 2008 - 12:45 AM
And come to think of it I didn't think about it; but EM has something there. When men talk about other people; and some talk about other women, they can do a great deal of harm to some girls' names. Or to family people too. That is very true.
vay Takoush, all that noise you made just to say "Women talk a lot more, but when men talk, they do a great harm" (?)
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Posted 07 March 2008 - 02:17 AM
#13
Posted 07 March 2008 - 09:51 AM
Don't get me wrong Aratta, not by far all men. A great many men are decent and keep their mouth shut; but there are some guys that just because they go out with some Armenian girls for instance, when they stop going out with them, they start lying that they slept with them and harm their reputation in a very mean way. Even when the girl didn't do such things and she just went out without doing anything. And it's not just with a few Armenian men, probably odar men are much worse. Again not by far all men; of course not. But some can be very harmful that way.
#14
Posted 07 March 2008 - 04:24 PM
For the record Aratta, this does not apply to HyeForum guys/men. Not at all. I know HyeForum men are gentlemen, they don't do such things.
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Posted 08 March 2008 - 01:34 AM
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Posted 08 March 2008 - 12:11 PM
#17
Posted 08 March 2008 - 12:33 PM
But in some other cases some men also talk about even married or divorced women. Things that are mostly or in whole part made up. Also divorced women are already suffering a great deal trying to make ends meet and bringing up their children in a loving atmosphere. They are already struggling and their misery is enough for them as it is. But you are right, that doesn't apply to most men nor to mature men; but every now and then it does happen and it is mean to the women that they are hurting unnecessarily.
Edited by Takoush, 08 March 2008 - 12:36 PM.
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Posted 09 March 2008 - 03:39 AM
#19
Posted 10 March 2008 - 08:56 AM
Zartonk, yes miyayn hantsavor chem kedner gark me deghamartots miyayn, ayl nayev gark me ginerou vore ge panpasen te amouri aghchignerou vera, te amousnatsads ginerou vera yev manavant "divorcee" ginerou vera. "Divorcee" ginerou vera manavant enthanrabes gark me giner en vor charachar ge panpasen. Payts gan gark me deghamartic "immature" anhas vor aghchignerou het gellen yev hedo anonts vera ge panpasen. Barzabes gesem te mexke ge mednen ayt oriortneroun yerp vor manavant arants vor hedernin kords me ounenan ge panpasen anonts vera.
Gergin gesem vor shad deghamartik, inchbes vor touk ek penav aytbes paner chek ener, ayl martavari yev hasounoren ge varvik yev "gentlemen" ek.
Payts gan yerpemen ourish Hay yev havanapar odar deghakner anhasoun vor aytbes ge varvin. Ayt er im esades.
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