tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2514352312859447561.post1861356723470391643..comments2024-01-30T03:30:45.740-05:00Comments on Bad Data, Bad!: Who talks more...men or women?bs kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02871717971078952304noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2514352312859447561.post-8718092372182485132013-02-25T14:20:08.402-05:002013-02-25T14:20:08.402-05:00I think when I read the comments by James Dobson, ...I think when I read the comments by James Dobson, I was also wondering if talking to babies counts. I mean, I talk to the little lord most of the time I'm with him, but that's more about trying to help engage him and language development than expression. <br /><br />I think what this gets down to is that there's lots of different types of speech, and we'd have to be quite precise with what we were measuring before we figured out who said more.bs kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02871717971078952304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2514352312859447561.post-84293704485810280622013-02-25T13:36:44.029-05:002013-02-25T13:36:44.029-05:00Well, if you wanted to measure how many words a pe...Well, if you wanted to measure how many words a person speaks, you'd need to clip a microphone to their shirt. (And somehow convince them to behave normally.)<br /><br />Then you'd have to ask whether a person talking to themselves counts. And you'd have to distinguish "talking to self" from "giving a presentation" and "teaching a class." <br /><br />If there really is a difference...<br /><br />Great point, though, on "public domain data".SJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12043843405366080460noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2514352312859447561.post-55758596718025867762013-02-24T13:46:44.573-05:002013-02-24T13:46:44.573-05:00I tend to take half the conversational space, no m...I tend to take half the conversational space, no matter how many people are present. Not likely to be actually true, but close. Yet there are situations in which I say almost nothing, and others where I avoid having to go because I would be expected to talk and I don't want to.<br /><br />Plus I talk to myself, sort of out loud, a lot. Do those count? And as you note, texts, tweets, comments...how do you score a forwarded link or a forwarded photo?<br /><br />Eh, why bother? Everyone knows women talk more than men, right? Assistant Village Idiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.com