45+: Women have higher Verbal Fluency

Test yourself in one Minute – with Colleagues, Family and Friends!

 

 

 

 

Till 15 and more significantly after 45 women are outperforming guys when it comes to verbald fluency. Between 15 and 45 both genders are pretty similar, though.

From 30 on education is an additional factor für higher verbal fluency – men could take use of that if they keep learning. They reach their top at the age of 39 and decline afterwards stronger than women who reach their peak at 43 and keep their pole position until their high age.

Test yourself in one minute or compete with someone in your proximity: each of has got one minute to name words of the same category like animals, fruits or objects, and secondly there is another minute where the two of you should collect as much words as possible starting with the same initial. Please compare: Females accomplish 36 words with the categories (median result), males only 33, where the same initials are sought of females reach 22 and males only 19 (median result).

Konstantipoulos/Martzoukou/Vogaziaos/Messinis/Nousia/Binos/Naxios, “Verbal Fluency Development Across the Lifespan: The Effects of Age, Gender and Education”, in: Neuropsychology, vol. 40, No.2, 191-200, 2026.

From the practice:

A big verby fluency helps when you want to be precise and to the point. And yes: who is a constand reade or learner keeps better going. Who of you is not remembering language classes at school where repetition of words within two subsequent sentences are prohibited?

Frequently though managers, functionaries or scientists simply don´t prepare properly before going on stage. Well, never that´ll be perfect. But one thing is close to my heart: please don´t call projects, presentations or discussions “exciting” all the time. 1. Only a minority of things who are claimed to be “exciting” actually are. 2. The more you use “exciting” for everything you want to promote the less the audience is believing you. On the contrary: You are losing credibility. 3. The net shows 143 Synonyms: https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/exciting. Please choose!