SO: What our voices say about us

Hazel_B

I saw this article in the paper and it made me wonder. What do you ladies think?

To be honest if someone sat me down to do that study I'm not sure what I would say.

desertsun

I think it's meaningless without a study that demonstrates that men with lower pitched voices actually DO cheat more, and how MUCH more. It might not be a huge a difference.

In the study the article talks about, I don't think it's necessarily about cheating -- I think lower/higher voices are probably signals that a mate has the right hormones to be a good mate. Thus the likelihood of having more partners is higher. More competition.

Honestly, I think that's just a poorly designed study. It doesn't seem to ask the right questions.

leia1979

This study was all about perception. It's rather meaningless, since there's no correlation between pitch and action.

Hazel_B

I agree Desert, I read  the article and my first thought was "how did they come up with this?". It seems pretty meaningless to me. I also don't know how many people decide what is attractive or not solely based on someone's voice.

heyimbren

The study's from McMaster and you Canadians might know what they say... if you can walk and talk you can go to Brock, and if you can walk a bit faster you can go to McMaster...

But as a serious comment, I agree with Leia. It sounds like it has less to do with hormones and scientific facts than vague assertions and human behaviour.

Hazel_B

That's crazy, I've never heard of the McMaster one. I grew up with the walk and talk you can go to Brock though.

[Deleted User]

There are a lot of studies that make correlations to freak everyone out.  There are studies in top journals like Science and Nature that are bogus.  I feel sad about the scientific community at times.