February 21, 2013
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Women Talk Too Much
I hate to say this but women talk too much. According to a study, women speak about 20,000 words a day and men speak about 13,000. Here is the link: Link
Do women talk more than men?
I hate to say this but women talk too much. According to a study, women speak about 20,000 words a day and men speak about 13,000. Here is the link: Link
Comments (82)
Oh I definitely talk too much!
Yes. And I already knew that.
I bitch and complain more than most men I know so of course I talk more.
Let’s strike and NOT comment (see speak) on your post to punish you for this. Starting now.
YES! But that’s because I have a lot to say
I talk alot and so does my bestfriend…but my boyfriend talks tooooooo much…
The study might be true…but I know a few guys that talk too much too
…But I don’t feel I need to say any less, I might add
Yes, women talk, that’s why they’re so much better at relationships. communication.
Duh.
Haha i know i do lmao i’m sure i say wwwwaaaayyyyy more that 20,000 words a day lol it’s probably more like a million!
OMGosh! I remember doing studies on this in one of my college classes. From all the studies, the typical answer seems to be yes, the average female does speak more day-to-day than the average male. I’d believe it.
I’m sure this is true. I write many more words than I speak out loud, though.
I can ramble on and on to people I trust. In bigger groups of people, I talk less than any other person, lol. But yeah… I can see this being true!
If we were to test this theory based on a typical phone conversation between you and me, we would totally disprove it.
yes they do which amount to more nonsense, but it depends where they come from also..men talk less, which amounts to less nonsense especially when women are around. but yes in general women babble out more than men. men seem to have given up speaking when women are around for some reason..but women talk continually as if they are more deserving and men give up their right to speak..but it depends of course where they come from…
This study is old.
This is why I wear a hearing aid which disables itself whenever it hears sounds of a higher frequency than my own voice.
DUUUUUUDE what is upppp with the misogyny these past few posts! knock it off
When my dad used to tell me to quit acting like a girl what he was really saying was STFU!
I’ll take quality over quantity any day.
I used to talk a lot more than I do now. I’m not so chatty anymore, that is dependant on the company I have though. I think generally men talk less than women. Just recently I met a guy that talks wayyyy more than any guy I’ve ever met though. So much so that I actually just wanted him to be quiet, and I’ve never thought that about a guy before!
um no, men don’t talk enough.
I’m way below the average for men lol…Women definitely talk more than men.
Maybe, but I feel like it has more to do with extraversion vs. introversion. Although, I could definitely see it being possible that an extraverted woman may talk more than an extraverted man. I’m pretty far on the introverted side though, and I can go a week or so without social interaction and be fine.
absolutely
I’m…………………not………………………sure………………………..
Could be. Most people talk more than me.
I know some guys that talk more than I do.
Get a few beers in me and that’s an easy 20,000 word count.
You talk too much you worry me to death, you talk too much you even worry my pets, you just taaaaAAAaalk talk toooo much *ignore mef I’m drunk*
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We only talk that much because the men don’t listen! Half of what we say is a repeat of whatever we said that you ignored.
I babble a lot on my blogs, but tend not to speak unless I feel like I need to or have something constructive or relevant to add to the conversation. I feel like I’m an exception to the rule. Which may explain why I never fared too well in social situations. My fiance, on the other hand. Sometimes I have to tell him to stop talking.
Yeah.
As a man, I find that grunting and hand signals express most of what I need to convey. Cutting all those excess words out of my daily speech leaves more time for drinking brewskis, chopping down trees with my bare hands, ogling titties, belching, and masturbating. Also we men only need a few words to speak with our friends as head nodding, pointing, belching, and punching each other sufficiently fills the linguistic gap. Plus according to the ancient man laws and the Holy Book of Bro, any conversation with a fellow man that lasts longer than five sentences automatically means you want to have sex with him and therefore you are a total homo.
/sarcasm
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I wasn’t never a chatter box…, my folks rarley get things our of me…, but be careful what you say to people it can bite you back in the butt. I don’t say that much to my folks anyway. What for
My first thought is that perhaps women talk more because men are perpetually distracted by cleavage. I wonder if they controlled for homo- vs heterosexuality?
Doesn’t apply to me. I can write a lot, but I can not talk a lot,if really at all in person. People who talk a lot and will just not stfu annoy me to no end. I hate even going out in public because of fear of people talking to me and possibly not wanting to shut up, and even worse, me having to talk to them. If I don’t know you, I probably don’t have anything to say to you. Even if I know you, I can enjoy your company and stories, but I never have any idea what to say.
I probably talk to my boyfriend more than anyone I know, but even so, he does most of the talking and I do the listening. Even if I start talking a lot, though he didn’t like my quietness when we met, if I’m talking about something important to me, he makes sure to let me know if I’m talking too much(or trying to describe what I’m attempting to say in many different ways-<<point made)
I’ve known about the same amount of men talk just as much as women, but the difference is, they don’t seem to talk because they need to, only when they really want to. For women, talking is like a hobby or a nervous habit. For men, it’s just talking: Women will talk while doing things, usually about relationships with people I don’t know, and it drives me nuts. Men on the other hand, will sometimes talk while doing things(like work/project-related), but mostly about jokes, things that interest them like games, and if they’re annoying, chicks.
crazy notion: maybe women talk “too much” because they actually have a lot to say…
I don’t really think that the problem is so much that women talk too much, as it is that men don’t talk enough!
Those studies are all old and more recent studies have nearly completely negated them. When in mixed company, men talk more. In school settings, male students talk more and teachers who attempt to get female students to speak more are seen as picking on the girls.
My more jovial response was going to be, “The only reason it says women talk more is because whenever they say nothing is wrong men insist that something is and, after they’ve explained it, twice, they than have to explain how they didn’t want advice or help which is why they said nothing was wrong in the first place.” Really, you’re married, how do you respond when your wife says nothing is wrong and how would you respond if she said something was wrong but she didn’t want to talk to you about it? It’s a lose-lose for women.
Random fact check according to the article. Women speak 13,000 worlds MORE than the average man. that means men speak on average 7000 words a day.
yeah.. so true..
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I feel like I used up all of my words when I was younger. I used to be quite a chatterbox when I was a kid. Now, I struggle to do more talking.
I talk and text too much!!!!hahaha
I agree that women definitely talk more than men, but I do think that people underestimate how much men talk in general. My guy friends gossip/talk more than me and my girlfriends at times! Overall, women do talk more but it doesn’t mean men don’t talk much either haha
Some women talk a lot and it doesn’t bother me because they can atleast fill the void with either some positivity or some insightfulness. Others just ramble on about trivial gossip-y shit. That’s when it can sometimes bug me. So “too much” really depends on the chick.
Dudes can of course be guilty of the same thing. But this is an on-average thing. It definitely fits my experience that women talk more than men.
It’s because we have to keep repeating ourselves when our husbands don’t listen. Duh. J/K!
Yes, gals talk more. My wife out talks me 10 to 1. She overwhelms me. I feel stunned and become silent. Where does she find the strength to tell me about all the things I do wrong everyday?
Is your wife talking too much Dan?
My hubby is a talker so we fight for territory
“This study here says women speak twice as often as men.”
“Huh?”
“I said, this study….”
Generally true, although in my current relationship things are reversed.
@AmorVomnia7 - It’s OK if they talk a lot if they actually have something to say, but it’s absolutely abysmal to hear them talk on and on about nothing. I have dated some of those and it’s annoying.
Yes.
Women talk twice as much because were always having to repeat what we say to men, well not quite twice as much but the remaining 7000 words we spoke to other women….everyone know that Dan!
Those are a lot of words… I don’t talk that much daily. But, I do believe most women do speak more than men.
Did they take that poll during football season? I can guarantee you my husband and his buddies are out talking me or any woman for that matter when anyone from the SEC is playing Sunday night football.
I think women can talk about almost anything whereas men only talk about things they really care about and then sometimes they won’t shut up.
In general, yes, but not all girls talk a lot.
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Dan, I think you did not read the article closely enough: “an average woman notches up 20,000 words in a day, which is about 13,000 more than the average man.” From this, it can be deduced that men speak a mere 7,000 words daily, which is just over 1/3 of the amount women speak.
The ability to speak elegantly is a highly useful skill, and is one which must be developed. A key factor is restraint, one which females, especially younger females, tend to lack. However, I disagree that all women speak too much; I view that as a rather disrespectful statement as it implies that the words of women are annoying to those around them. Anyone’s words can be annoying if present in a trivial and loquacious manner.
While I will agree that I have heard people speak effusively (I admit to hearing this more frequently from females), if the content of that speech is well-developed, respectful, and intellectually driven I do not often consider it to be “too much.”
I dunno. I’m in customer service so I have mini-conversations with each customer I see since they’re pretty much all regulars. However, I barely say anything when I’m at home, I prefer to talk via the computer.
Uh, I’m a woman and I barely like to talk at all…
Arguably, you could say that men don’t speak enough.
Instead of stating it as a negative (TOO much) Why not state it simply as a fact? Women speak more than men. No judgement.
I’m not gonna lie. I do talk a lot. My old teachers use to say they couldn’t even sit me next to the wall because I’d talk to it.
http://www.dailypaul.com/275409/why-women-talk-more-than-men-language-protein-uncovered
I hate to say this, but I think this report is wrong. I know lots of men that talk more than a woman. Bro. Doc
We have better things to say I guess?
Men talk too little
Yes, that study also showed that women have more of a protein associated with language in their brains.
Women need to speak more than men because most women (not all) tend to be more interpersonal, cooperative, and relational than most men (again, not all). These are basic gender differences that keep being proven over and over. I have a professional communication degree, and one thing I learned during my time at uni is that women across the board are slightly better at interpreting nonverbal communication than men are, too, which gives rise to the idea of “women’s intuition.” Men have many other strengths, but this is definitely a mostly feminine one.
Yeah right, you “hate to say this”
You loved saying it, that’s why you said it, and it’s just your opinion and who you are.
Many other studies have shown women and men speak around the same number of words per day. One study I remember reading specifically said the researchers placed recording devices on men and women and the recording device was turned on throughout the day and recorded what the person was saying. It was found that men and women spoke an average of ~16000 words per day, give or take a few hundred. The difference between the number of words they spoke was statistically insignificant.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=women-talk-more-than-men
Here’s a link that references the study I’m talking about.
Probably. I know some men who can talk my ear off, causing me to cut them short and leave as quickily as possible. I also grew up being taught, that unless I had something intelligent to say, I shouldn’t say anything at all……..
NO! My husband and his buddies out talk me and my friends. You can’t generalize like this. I’ve heard it said that men never listen. That is also not true.
Dan: Women talk more than men. Do women talk more than men?
Me: …
i certainly don’t. i hate talking. but in general, i believe women do talk more. i wish we’d shut the fuck up.
When guys get together, they talk. A lot. Women too. I figured they both spoke an equal amount.
um no, men don’t talk enough.
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No. It’s sexist bullshit.