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Women talk three times as much as men, says study
Daily Mail ^ | 27th November 2006 | FIONA MACRAE

Posted on 11/27/2006 5:28:17 PM PST by E-Mat

...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.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: addadh; autism; differences; duh; gender; men; women
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To: E-Mat

Women talk three times as much as men? Hey, and I also heard the sky is blue.


61 posted on 11/28/2006 12:42:07 AM PST by Screamname (Tagline: (optional, printed after your name on post):)
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To: E-Mat

Women talk three times as much as men and liberals talk 100 times more than anyone else.


62 posted on 11/28/2006 12:42:39 AM PST by Screamname (Tagline: (optional, printed after your name on post):)
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To: E-Mat; Lil'freeper
Women talk three times as much as men, says study

Ya think?


63 posted on 11/28/2006 4:03:44 AM PST by big'ol_freeper (It looks like one of those days when one nuke is just not enough-- Lt. Col. Mitchell, SG-1)
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To: Fred Nerks
"Watership Down" is a must read IMO. Though children believe it to be the perfect novel for children, it is the favorite of many adults. It is a trip into another world, which exists right outside your door.

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64 posted on 11/28/2006 4:59:57 AM PST by Dark Skies ("He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that" ... John Stuart Mill)
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To: E-Mat

Breaking News!!!!

65 posted on 11/28/2006 6:07:25 AM PST by Arrowhead1952 (The terrorists have many allies in the United States, especially in the democrat party.)
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To: 2ndClassCitizen

"Women are logical, but their emotions guide their logic."

I wouldn't go that far.




66 posted on 11/28/2006 7:50:43 AM PST by the lastbestlady (I now believe that we have two lives. The life we learn with and the life we live with after that.)
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To: E-Mat

bttt


67 posted on 11/28/2006 9:03:18 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Lancey Howard

Women talk three times as much as men, says study

Tim Allen was right!

"Arr Arr Arrgh!"


68 posted on 11/28/2006 9:07:21 AM PST by COBOL2Java ("No stronger retrograde force exists in the world" - Winston Churchill on Islam)
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To: E-Mat
Dr Luan Brizendine


69 posted on 11/28/2006 9:11:11 AM PST by eyedigress
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To: E-Mat

I think a lot of this stems from women's inability to summarize.

I could tell my wife, "I stopped and bought milk." But if she were telling me, she would describe the entire journey step-by-step, including how hard it was to park, who she saw at the store, and a re-enactment of any and all conversations she had while there!

She would do this even if I started the conversation by asking, "Did you get milk?" and all she had to say was, "Yes."

Sometimes she gets so wrapped up in the telling of the story she seems to lose all track of where it's supposed to wind up. There's no obvious arc to it, no sense that it's heading to a conclusion, and I have to interrupt her. I don't like doing it, but at some point I feel I have no choice.




70 posted on 11/28/2006 9:30:10 AM PST by NRPM
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To: E-Mat
"allowing men to become "deaf" to the most logical of arguments put forward by their wives and girlfriends."

Yeah, I buying that, when have you heard a woman voice anything while invoking logic.

He,he.

71 posted on 11/28/2006 9:31:25 AM PST by #1CTYankee (That's right, I have no proof. So what of it??)
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To: E-Mat

I like the Jeff Foxworth routine.

When a women breaks up with a guy, she has to spend the rest of the day talking about it with her best girlfriend.

When a guy tells his best friend that he's breaking up with his girlfriend, say at a gym, the friend simply says, "That's too bad, hey would you spot me?"


72 posted on 11/28/2006 9:36:19 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: theDentist; E-Mat

Comes from the caveman days, I'll bet.

Women-types spending their days near the cave, in the bushes and brambles searching for berries and seeds and nuts. So, as they keep talking, they
(1) tell everybody around they are OK
(2) can hear the kids and tell what the kids are doing
(3) the kids can hear them and know where to go for help and milk and protection
(4) the noise scares away the (unfriendly) nearby animals and bears and wild pigs and predators who would otherwise be eating the non-talkiative women-type.
(5) tell the nearby people (children and women) where they are - important if you can't see without glasses and in the bushes.

So a talkative blabby gossipy woman tends to protect the nearby women and children from harm.

OK. Makes sense. Quiet silent-type women get eaten. And can't eat as much since their neighbors are being eaten. And are more likely to lose their kids, or have their kids get eaten. Noisy women who smell nice and look pretty are well-liked, and able to breed more easily. Eat more easily.


Now, think about the guys, out in the bushes trying to sneak up on a deer or pig or wild turkey or squirrel. Or avoid getting killed by raiding tribes intent on theft and murder. Or to attack and kill a raiding tribe of warriers.

Noisy, talkative, perfumed guy who's overly worried about appearances or impressions or his clothes scares away the food. Scares away the other hunters. Alerts the target that men are present.

Irritates the other hunters.

Get shot himself. Or just excluded from the next hunt. In any event, noisy feminine type guys don't eat as much, nor as often.

Survival of the noisiest (woman). Survival of the quietest (man).


73 posted on 11/28/2006 9:38:28 AM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: A_perfect_lady

(Robt can't get a word in edgewise.

Looks at situation. Decides he'd better wait until she puts the book down ..........)



(Still waiting .......... Still looking...........


74 posted on 11/28/2006 9:42:08 AM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

Any particular reason you're repeating yourself, Rob? Need a little more librium in your coffee?


75 posted on 11/28/2006 9:42:43 AM PST by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
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To: Fred Nerks

Comparable thoughts about cavepersons in nbr 73.


76 posted on 11/28/2006 9:44:03 AM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: theDentist

Who? Me? What? Why? Where? Repeat myself?


77 posted on 11/28/2006 9:44:56 AM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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Bookmark.


78 posted on 11/28/2006 9:50:05 AM PST by Junior (Losing faith in humanity one person at a time.)
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To: NRPM

And don't ever ask about a movie. Reading the script would take less time.


79 posted on 11/28/2006 10:18:49 AM PST by doodad
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