Thread:User talk:Armondikov/Congratulations (2)/reply (24)

The graph on the bottom, showing that women really do talk "more" also shows we take more turns. Selfish bitches!

In my linguistic world, one of the graduate students was working on a project studying interruption behaviors in men, women, and specifically, teen to adult. It was an artificial study, in that two speakers would be given a topic and told (forced) to talk for 30 minutes at a time, but it was still interesting. Despite the "you never let me finish" motif women often say, they were far and away more guilty of butting in.

Course it was a first year grad's study, limited only to the "is this something worth further study" kind of project we all did.