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The Skeptics Guide #908 - Dec 3 2022

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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Sex-Rated Faces With Scars Are Less Attractive Than Similar Faces Without Scars

Female children, girls do basically talk earlier and have a longer, a larger vocabulary than boys. Is this because they're being treated differently by their parents? And the answer is probably no. So it may be more like the girl children have more of a vocabulary. They may not necessarily have a larger volume of speech than boys. But parents did talk to toddlers longer and more, the more babbling or talking that the toddlers themselves did. Which is unfortunate because the children who need to be talked to are exactly the ones who talk less spontaneously.

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