Women hear better than men and are excellent at distinguishing high-pitched sounds. A woman’s brain is programmed to hear a baby cry in the night, whereas a father may oblivious to it and sleep on. If there is a kitten crying in the distance, a woman will hear it. A man, however, with his superior spatial and directional skills, can tell her where it is.
Dripping taps drive women crazy, while men sleep.
At one week, baby girls can distinguish their mother’s voice or the cry of another baby from the other sounds that are present in the same room. Baby boys can’t. The female brain has the ability to separate and categorize sound and decisions about each sound. This accounts for a woman’s ability to listen to one person in a face-to-face conversation while monitoring another person’s conversation. It also explains why a man had difficulty hearing a a conversation while there is a television on in the background or dished are being clattered in the sink. If the phone rings, a man demands that people stop talking, music be turned down and the TV be switched off for him to answer it a woman simple answers the phone.
Women Read Between the Lines
Women have superior sensitivity in differentiating tone changes in voice volume and pitch. This enables them to hear emotional changes in children and adults. Consequently, for every man who can sing in tune, there are eight women who do it. This ability goes a long way to explaining a woman’s phrase, “Don’t use that tone of voice with me!” when arguing with men and boys. Most males don’t have a clue what she’s talking about.
Tests Conducted on babies reveal that baby girls respond almost twice as much to loud sound than do boys. This explains why girls are more easily soothed and comforted by high-pitched baby talk than boys, and why mother intuitively sing lullabies to the girls but talk to, or play with, boys. Female hearing advantage contributes significantly to what is called “women intuition” and is one of the reasons why a woman can read between the lines of what people say. Men, however, shouldn’t despair. They are excellent at identifying and imitating animal sounds, which would have been a significant advantage for the ancient hunter. Sadly, that’s not quite as much use today.