Women talk three times as much as men, says study

Tyrael · #1 28th-November-2006

Quote:

Women talk three times as much as men, says study

By FIONA MACRAE

Last updated at 13:39pm on 28th November 2006

It is something one half of the population has long suspected - and the other half always vocally denied. Women really do talk more than men.

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.

Women also speak more quickly, devote more brainpower to chit-chat - and actually get a buzz out of hearing their own voices, a new book suggests.

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.

In The Female Mind, Dr Luan Brizendine says women devote more brain cells to talking than men.

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.

Dr Brizendine, a self-proclaimed feminist, says the differences can be traced back to the womb, where the sex hormone testosterone moulds the developing male brain.

The areas responsible for communication, emotion and memory are all pared back the unborn baby boy.

The result is that boys - and men - chat less than their female counterparts and struggle to express their emotions to the same extent.

"Women have an eight-lane superhighway for processing emotion, while men have a small country road," said Dr Brizendine, who runs a female "mood and hormone" clinic in San Francisco.

There are, however, advantages to being the strong, silent type. Dr Brizendine explains that testosterone also reduces the size of the section of the brain involved in hearing - allowing men to become "deaf" to the most logical of arguments put forward by their wives and girlfriends.

But what the male brain may lack in converstation and emotion, they more than make up with in their ability to think about sex.

Dr Brizendine says the brain's "sex processor" - the areas responsible for sexual thoughts - is twice as big as in men than in women, perhaps explaining why men are stereotyped as having sex on the mind.

Or, to put it another way, men have an international airport for dealing with thoughts about sex, "where women have an airfield nearby that lands small and private planes".

Studies have shown that while a man will think about sex every 52 seconds, the subject tends to cross women's minds just once a day, the University of California psychiatrist says.

Dr Brizendine, whose book is based on her own clinical work and analyses of more than 1,000 scientific studies, added: "There is no unisex brain.

"Girls arrive already wired as girls, and boys arrive already wired as boys. Their brains are different by the time they're born, and their brains are what drive their impulses, values and their very reality.

"I know it is not politically correct to say this but I've been torn for years between my politics and what science is telling us.

"I believe women actually perceive the world differently from men.

"If women attend to those differences they can make better decisions about how to manage their lives."

Other scientists, however, are sceptical about the effects of testosterone on the brain and say many of the differences between the male and female personality can be explained by social conditioning, with a child's upbringing greatly influencing their character.

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."

Already available in the US, The Female Brain will be available in the UK from April.

Link.

Quote:

The areas responsible for communication, emotion and memory are all pared back the unborn baby boy.

Quote:

The result is that boys - and men - chat less than their female counterparts and struggle to express their emotions to the same extent.

"Women have an eight-lane superhighway for processing emotion, while men have a small country road," said Dr Brizendine, who runs a female "mood and hormone" clinic in San Francisco.

There are, however, advantages to being the strong, silent type. Dr Brizendine explains that testosterone also reduces the size of the section of the brain involved in hearing - allowing men to become "deaf" to the most logical of arguments put forward by their wives and girlfriends.

Boys and men absolutely have emotions, apathy and don't lack at all. Males can express themselves fine by using less words then females use. This makes the communication of males faster, more direct to the point and a lot more efficient.

Women are more verbal, men more physical. Women talk about things more because they tend to process such things externally while with men it's more internally.

Men communicate more efficiently then women by not discussing too much things that are irrelevant and not using many words to describe things when detailed explanations are not needed.

There is a BIG difference between communicating verbally and transferring useful information versus long seemingly endless babbling about minor things.

Quote:

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.

This is also with shoes, fashion and such. Men on other hand get such rushes when they discover, invent, make things work. And this is why there are much less women in technical occupations and such.

Quote:

"I know it is not politically correct to say this but I've been torn for years between my politics and what science is telling us."

This is a example of why feminist studies are crap because they are torn between their ideology and what's actually the truth. They tend favor their false, illogical ideology instead of the truth.

Quote:

Dr Brizendine says the brain's "sex processor" - the areas responsible for sexual thoughts - is twice as big as in men than in women, perhaps explaining why men are stereotyped as having sex on the mind.

Or, to put it another way, men have an international airport for dealing with thoughts about sex, "where women have an airfield nearby that lands small and private planes".

This is nonsense. There isn't a accurate way to find out how often people really think about it. For example I don't think about sex for many hours.

Tyrael · #2 28th-November-2006

By the way scientific studies such as these confirm the fact that males and females are both physically and psychologically different.
This shatters the feminist "unisex brain" myth, since scientific studies show that the "unisex brain" really doesn't exist.

**knight-errant** · #3 29th-November-2006

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tyrael

This is nonsense. There isn't a accurate way to find out how often people really think about it. For example I don't think about sex for many hours.

Well it depends what you mean about "think about sex" doesn't it?

Does a barely perceptible subconscious thought about a woman, whether it be warm and fuzzy or mildly titilating count as thinking about sex?

When women say "men think about sex every 6 seconds" (or whatever) it just serves to give the impression of us as these lumbering ogres, with uncontrollable primitive urges. Now while there might be some truth in that with regards to the entire human race (we're none of us perfect and we're all given to natural urges) I see no evidence that men are any more base than females who seem to think about men CONSTANTLY and often in derogatory terms.

Dr David Banner · #4 29th-November-2006

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...n_page_id=1879

Quote:

Dr Brizendine, a self-proclaimed feminist, says the differences can be traced back to the womb, where the sex hormone testosterone moulds the developing male brain

Another pointless survey by a woman who says she is a feminist.Women talk more -Galilieo moment or what?

We know already.She might try looking for a cure for cancer
or something worthwhile.

But hey...Thats not as much fun as pointless gender studies,and being a feminist which affords the opportunity to whinge and whine about nothing.

Similar Threads
Thread	Thread Starter	Forum	Replies	Last Post
Study: Men end up happier than women in later years	Tyrael	Facts and Figures	17	25th-August-2008 09:52 AM
Universities pay women to study science...	christianj	Australian Men's News	2	17th-August-2008 08:06 PM
Not like we needed a study, but a study proves women love bad boys	Tyrael	Chit chat (MAIN)	17	23rd-June-2008 03:53 PM
Study: Women want men who remind them of their dads	IronLady	Chit chat (MAIN)	0	21st-July-2007 08:59 PM
Why Men Should Not Talk To Women.	George Rolph	George Rolph's articles	27	1st-July-2007 01:06 PM

Women talk three times as much as men, says study

Women talk three times as much as men, says study

Similar Threads