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previous research has shown that's women talk almost three times as much as men
in fact and average woman not his about twenty thousand words a day
which is about thirteen thousand more than the average man in addition women
generally speak faster and devote more brain power to speaking before there
were questions about whether these were just incorrect gender stereotypes that
we do have some research and it says no this is true
the next question obviously is well why
and now we actually have research that explains why in this may be related to
eight gene called fox p_-two f o x p_-two
which appears to be
essential for the production of speech these are findings from the university
of maryland school of medicine and they say that
uh... initially they did some tests with rats and they would test the rats when
they died
and they found that of the protein levels were significantly higher
in the uh... in the females than they were in the mail so next the researchers
wanted to test this on human so that they did a small study on human children
age forty five who died in accidents less than twenty-four hours previously
and then they analyzed how much of this afro exp two protein is in the brains of
these children and they found in fact the brains of the girls have thirty
percent more of this protein
then the brains of the boys did and and again this is a key molecule for
communication in mammals
and it could explain allot of things and it could explain why not only why women
talk more but also if it is true that this is connected to
quality of communication skills why and again these are all gender stereotypes
but
it seems that some of the data backs up that these things are true that women
are more comfortable in so-called smalltalk
disclaimer trail researchers not i worked yet
interesting i mean i sure they're people that will be
offended by this right
but uh... pastries is his research coming from one school do you think in
the time of that
giving men this protein adding this protein giving them extra protein could
affects communication skills from an
well uh... i haven't really read the study but it seems like maybe the
protein is an adaptation that goes on when you talk more so
if there's a societal reason why women talk more it's not genetic maybe their
brains change in response to that and they get more of this protein in that
case uh...
it might not have they owed effect on men that you would assume that he just
inject that on the other hand
and a really get what the relationship is with brad semis
and really any other animal because they don't park so i just i don't get where
they've got it was initially unless it was with their whatever screen screeched
acknowledges the ran right about so it's pretty difficult uh... compare
human speech is specially small talk with something the animals don't do it
is difficult but they found in humans that women also have more of this
protein but it has this rolled out the possibility that i'm saying that this is
just something that happens when people talk more noah has been ruled out
so for example you would need to compare it with males and females at park little
and the talk a lot to see the changes
within one of the genders that's the next thirty we need the lawyers with
them
right amin eight they conducted a small study on children
uh...
and this is presumably before you even reach a level where they're going to be
doing all that parking
and and the female children still have higher levels of bryce their you're
you're both making excellent point and i said