Chatty women – v – strong silent types

It never ceases to amuse that there are earnest, dedicated, educated researchers who get paid to state the obvious. I have to draw your attention to the latest research beauty: ‘The female chatterbox who never lets men get a word in edgeways…is nothing more than a myth.”

This according to research conducted by one Jamie Pennebaker, Professor of Psychology at the University of Texas and published in the journal Science this month. Prof. Pennebaker measured the verbal output of 400 students recorded randomly over a six year period.

Men and women’s word-use in a day is so similar that the difference is described as statistically insignificant.

How about a really useful and innovative investigation? Wire up 400 bankers on different compensation committees. Follow them and their verbal output for six years, and then report back to the world at large about what it is they actually say versus what they do.

We promise we’ll publish it right here.

Now, that really would be a worthwhile exercise