Fast talkers AREN'T more effective communicators

A researcher has found that men convey more information than women at the same speech rate. Dr Uriel Cohen Priva, a psychology professor at Brown University the author of the research, also found that whether we speak slowly or quickly, we still end up communicating information at about the same rate. Slow talkers tend to use rarer, more unexpected words and fast talkers speak with more common words. Men conveyed more information than women at the same speech rate because women may tend to be more concerned with making sure their listeners understand what they're saying The research, published in the journal Cognition, suggests we tend to converse with a narrow channel of communication so that we don't convey too much or too little information at a time. In the field of information theory, rarer word choices and complicated syntax conveys more information.