Wednesday, July 11, 2007

gender equality or inequality?

Do women yap more than men?

We're all familiar with fact that women speak an average of few thousand words a day, while man can survive with just a few hundred morphemes. A new study found both sexes to be not very different after all when it comes to word length.

Using EAR (electronically activated recorder) which samples 30 secs of ambient noise every 12.5 mins on ~400 students, the results on both genders were even on daily averages: women at 16,215 words and men at 15,669.

So there, guys - u can talk one!! hah ! & you can't use your genetic make-over as an excuse for your silence or absence too. nya-har ! However the other myth of women being more 'pak gua' than man still can't be dispelled ;p

*winks*

While Beauty and the Beast is culturally accepted, Witchy and the Hunk might not seem as tempting? Can you even imagine yourself lining up at the cinema for this title? (ya, maybe in horror movies, so suggested a friend). Plus, i realize movies nowadays are shifting from Pierce Brosnan with muscles and charms to average Joe with a hot chick on a mission. (i.e Austin Powers, Transformers). Maybe the producers are making certain sensations more achievable to Joey (whose eyes are heavily glued to the idiot box with a packet of chips)... however, certain expectations on girls are still unchanged.

How unfair hur?

Well, just some quirks for the day la :)

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

we all like to see beautiful things /people, cant change that.

“When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it.” Ge3.

May be the witch is actually a princess? Wasnt the beast a prince :)

Thank the gods for makeup!

Eww Gene said...

ha ha! makeup = decepticons. just kidding! i hope i don't get flame for that.
Of course man can talk! We just can't communicate. We don't communicate because we don't have time for incompetency. and because our lack of communication skill we may look/sound incompetent. We again we have no time to talk about it.
e.g.
Say Also Don't Listen
Listen Also Don't Understand
Don't Understand Also Don't Ask
Ask Also Don't Do
Do Also Do Wrong
Wrong Also Don't Admit
Admit Also Don't Correct
Correct Also Not Happy
Not Happy Also Don't Say

el'z said...

jin : noted. very interesting 'proverb' on men ;p

d : hur? wat tokking u?

HL said...

The study shows that men and women talk the same amount on the average. The difference is in what they talk about.

Variety is the spice of life. Yum.

el'z said...

ya... women bring colors into men's life... can u imagine life without us?

hahaha :)

and vice versa la.