Women 'cannot keep a secret for longer than 47 hours'

The Telegraph ^ | 17 Sep 2009 | Murray Wardrop

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Researchers found that women are overcome by a burning desire to share gossip as soon as they hear it.

They will typically spill the beans to at least one other person in 47 hours and 15 minutes.

Depending on who the gossip is about, their boyfriend, husband, best friend or mother are most likely to be the initial recipients of the information.

The study of 3,000 women aged between 18 and 65 also found that four out of ten admitted they were unable to keep a secret – no matter how personal or confidential the news was.

It also found that alcohol usually gives us a helping hand to blurt out secrets – with more than half admitting a glass or two of wine could prompt them to dish the dirt.

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The study found the nation's ladies hear three nuggets of gossip a week, but end up passing it on to at least one other person.

Six in 10 end up telling someone completely uninvolved so the person the secret belongs to won't know.

Three in 10 admitted having the urge to reveal someone's secret. Nearly half (45 per cent) disclose secrets just for the weight to be lifted from their shoulders.

However, two thirds end up feeling guilty are passing on secrets.

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Intimate issues, true cost of purchases and affairs emerged top of the secret-keeping list, with girls most likely to share a secret chatting face-to-face, on the phone or via a text message.

Fortunately for some though, over a quarter (27 per cent) said they forgot what they were told the following day.

[Daffynition]

Even if I pinky swear?

[BikerJoe]

So that old joke is true?

"Telephone", "Telegraph", "Tellawoman"...

[earlJam]

ELAINE: You can tell me. I’ll put it in the vault.

[orlop9]

...and this is news? snicker

[fso301]

And what does this say about access to classified information?

[GOP Poet]

bookmark

[Dr. Ursus]

Must be a typo-seconds not hours (snort)

[PBRSTREETGANG]

47 hours would be a record in my wife’s family.

[SamiGirl]

Oh, that’s just not true.

[HangnJudge]

“Telephone”, “Telegraph”, “Tellawoman”...

They don't call it the
Women Wide Web for nuthin’

[ozark hilljilly]

Most men can't keep a secret longer than 12 hours!

Gals, Am I right?

[SampleMan]

Crap! I told my wife my PIN 47 hours ago. I’d better run to the Credit Union and fast.

[Daffynition]

Apparently.

[Daffynition]

HAHAHA!

PERFECT eJ!

PERFECT! HAHAHA!

[radiohead]

Nonsense. Clients told me secrets all the time. I kept them.
I will keep a family secret until the persons involved die.
Maybe some women are unable to honor a pledge to keep something secret, but certainly not all.

[Daffynition]

LOL ...only is your name is not Victoria

[jwparkerjr]

My wife has kept a secret for the 47 years of our marriage, namely what would it take to make happy!

[Skenderbej]

That was my first thought. I always wondered (well not really) why some people who shouldn’t know, knew.

[b4its2late]

They needed to do research for this?

[FreeAtlanta]

Are you accusing Senator Leaky Leahy of being a women?

[SamiGirl]

Hey, I like Victoria’s Secret. It’s my favorite place to shop.

[fso301]

Are you accusing Senator Leaky Leahy of being a women?

If Leahy prefers the male gender identity, I'll respect it and put my suspicions aside.

Men obviously have a problem keeping secrets as well. One of the original men selected for the atomic bomb missions in WWII proved to be a talker and if I remember the story correctly, Col. Tibbets ordered him reassigned to the most remote, out of the way location possible for the duration of the war.

[JoeProBono]

[driftless2]

I have one sister who I cannot trust to keep a secret for more than a day. I have accordingly warned other people about her. But my sister loses out too. I never tell her anything important anymore.

[CharlesWayneCT]

Words you rarely hear from men:

“If I tell you something, can you keep it a secret?”

Which is the universal phrase for “someone told me a secret and I have to tell someone else”.

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

My 13 yo is great with secrets, never telling a soul. My 11 yo, will spill within seconds.

[Arrowhead1952]

It also found that alcohol usually gives us a helping hand to blurt out secrets – with more than half admitting a glass or two of wine could prompt them to dish the dirt.

Usually? Usually? How about always. Also, I've had more women than men tell me "I'll tell you something if you promise not to tell anyone else".

As we used to say:

There are three basic forms of communication in our town.

Telephone
Television
Tell a woman

[Nea Wood]

I used to work in an office that had only two male employees. If you wanted a rumor to spread as speedily as possible, you told one of the men.

[dfwgator]

I used to work in an office that had only two male employees. If you wanted a rumor to spread as speedily as possible, you told one of the men.

I take it they weren't straight.

[Nea Wood]

One was gay, one was straight.

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[Are all the people in this image now dead?]

Jes askin’

[JoeProBono]

Can You Hear Me Now?

[Arrowhead1952]

LOL. That says it all.

[Daffynition]

No. But I can see you just fine.

[Vigilantcitizen]

It’s not that hard to find women who will keep a secret if it involves “kissin and tellin”. ;^)>

[paulycy]

"Pick a little - talk a little. Pick a little - talk a little!"

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[Daffynition]

LOL ...cheep cheep cheep!