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Research Determines Women Can Keep a Secret For 47 Hours
A study of 3,000 women aged 18-65 has found that the average woman cannot keep a secret for longer than 47 hours. The study also found that four out of ten admitted that they were unable to keep a secret, no matter how personal or private. Michael Cox, UK Director of Wines of Chile, which commissioned the research, said, "It's official - women can't keep secrets. We were really keen to find out with this survey how many secrets people are told. What we didn't bank on was how quickly these are passed on by those we confide in. No matter how precious the piece of information, it's often out in the public domain within 48 hours."
That sucks! Now everyone will know about my Pokemon collection in 2 days!
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Television, Telephone, Tell a woman.
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No, but really, every single woman I've ever know does the exact same thing upon hearing a secret:
1.) Hear secret and promise Friend #1 she won't tell anyone.
2.) Deliberately jump into a conversation with Acquaintance #1 and bring up something trivial and unrelated. This step is important. If it doesn't happen, it wasn't really a secret.
3.) Promptly call Friend #2 and in a hushed but still CLEARLY audible voice, tell the secret.
4.) Commence calling everyone she knows in order of familiarity. With each new person in on it, talk becomes less quiet and forbidden.
5.) Inevitably hears the secret back from someone else.
6.) Speak about secret openly to everyone until it gets old.
The survey was commissioned by the Wines of Chile? One wonders how rigorous this study was, especially given they don't mention asking the obvious alternative group, men. It sounds almost like an Onion article.
It does match my experience, but in general men aren't that great at secrets either-- we just don't find most gossip as interesting. I, for one, forget most of it almost as fast as my gf tells me... Still: never tell a girl something you don't want people talking about the next day. Women are a lot like Facebook, in a way... you don't get to complain about them doing what they do.
If everyone is doing a thing, it is not immoral, it is natural, like Pirate Bay.
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We usually call people who don't lie and cheat socially inept. There is a 'too honest' if you want to get along with your peers.
Now I'm not saying that this is not a very damning situation for a race to be in, but there you have it.
Women tell secrets either because they like the feeling of power or authority when spilling information or because of the response they get from the people they tell, a feeling of importance and acceptance.