The Female Brain by Louann Brizendine M.D.
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Book Summary Author: Louann Brizendine M.D. Edition: Hardcover Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published) Published: 2006-08-01 ISBN: 0767920090 Number of pages: 304 Publisher: Broadway |
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Book Reviews of the The Female Brain
Customer Review: File in Fiction, not Science.
Summary: 1 Stars
The problem with this book is that Brizendine actively misrepresents research and uses numbers that are basically made-up. Her "science" doesn't stand up to scrutiny.
For instance, on differences between male and female speech patterns she claims that women speak three times more words than men in a day, and speak almost twice as fast. In fact, no reliable studies had been done when the book came out. Prompted by the book, somebody actually bothered to measure, and it turned out that men and women speak about the same number of words, and men speak (very slightly) faster. You can get details about the studies from the excellent blog LanguageLog, which reports on real linguistic science. Google for the post titled "Gabby guys: the effect size".
In sum: This book should be filed in the Fiction section, not the Science section.