Huldra Forsvant (Theodor Kittelsen)

Huldra Forsvant (Theodor Kittelsen)
Huldra Forsvant (Theodor Kittelsen)

Monday, March 2, 2009

An Interesting Statistic

On my course I learnt that men speak at an average speed of 180-200 syllables per minute.

The average speed for women?

230.

2 comments:

Tracy said...

That is very interesting. I think my husband drags the average down a bit. He thinks for a while between his words. It sometimes makes me quite impatient.

Ben McLaughlin said...

I kinda like slow talkers. I feel more relaxed with them, and less like it's a competition who will get the first word in.