Why women talk so much - and men so little
I found this in a newspaper ages ago...Although, I do know some men who could almost out talk me!
Research shows that women can speak 20,000 to 25,000 words a day compared to a man's paltry 7,000 to 10,000. And in childhood, not only to girls start talking earlier than boys but a 3 year old girl has nearly twice the vocabulary of a boy of the same age. Why is this the case? For males, speech is not a specific brain skill. It operates solely in the left of the brain but has no specific location.
When a man talks, brain scans show that the entire left hemisphere of his brain becomes active as it searches to find a centre for speech, but is unable to find one. Consequently, men aren't physically equipped to be good at talking. Women, however, have specific areas in the brain devoted to speech, located primarily in the front left hemisphere with another smaller specific area in the right hemisphere. Having speech in both hemispheres means that, unlike men, women can talk and watch TV at the same time for example, or talk about several different subjects at once. Male brains are highly compartmentalised and have the ability to separate and store information. At the end of a day full of problems, a man's brain can file them all away. If he's used up his 7,000 word quota he really has no desire to communicate any more - he's happy to fire gaze or read the paper. The female brain, on the other hand, does not store information in this way - the problems just keep going round in her head and she needs to talk them through. If she has used up her 20,000 words during the day, she may be happy just to sit back and relax quietly but if she hasn't had the opportunity to chat enough she feels the need to speak the remaining balance of her quota. Men can percieve this as nagging - but its not. Her objective is to discharge the problems, not find conclusions or solutions.
Next time you hear a woman talking away just remember it was actually God who created us like that! "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them" Genesis 1:27
I found this in a newspaper ages ago...Although, I do know some men who could almost out talk me!
Research shows that women can speak 20,000 to 25,000 words a day compared to a man's paltry 7,000 to 10,000. And in childhood, not only to girls start talking earlier than boys but a 3 year old girl has nearly twice the vocabulary of a boy of the same age. Why is this the case? For males, speech is not a specific brain skill. It operates solely in the left of the brain but has no specific location.
When a man talks, brain scans show that the entire left hemisphere of his brain becomes active as it searches to find a centre for speech, but is unable to find one. Consequently, men aren't physically equipped to be good at talking. Women, however, have specific areas in the brain devoted to speech, located primarily in the front left hemisphere with another smaller specific area in the right hemisphere. Having speech in both hemispheres means that, unlike men, women can talk and watch TV at the same time for example, or talk about several different subjects at once. Male brains are highly compartmentalised and have the ability to separate and store information. At the end of a day full of problems, a man's brain can file them all away. If he's used up his 7,000 word quota he really has no desire to communicate any more - he's happy to fire gaze or read the paper. The female brain, on the other hand, does not store information in this way - the problems just keep going round in her head and she needs to talk them through. If she has used up her 20,000 words during the day, she may be happy just to sit back and relax quietly but if she hasn't had the opportunity to chat enough she feels the need to speak the remaining balance of her quota. Men can percieve this as nagging - but its not. Her objective is to discharge the problems, not find conclusions or solutions.
Next time you hear a woman talking away just remember it was actually God who created us like that! "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them" Genesis 1:27
posted by Dawn at 9:39 PM
2 Comments:
Who are these talkative men, Dawn? Surely no one could actually out talk you?
Marc you could almost certainly do it...and I'd also put money on Towner as well!
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