Reading through newspapers old and new it becomes obvious that one should be skeptical whenever he sees the phrase "a new study has shown."
Well according to a new study described in today's Times, women are more likely to get it on with men with deep voices:
Study Finds Reproductive Edge for Men With Deep Voices
By NICHOLAS BAKALAR
A man with a deep voice may have a survival advantage, a better chance of passing on his genes.
Researchers have found that men with deeper voices have more children — at least among the Hadza, a group of hunter-gatherers in Tanzania.
I should confess that in this instance part of my skepticism may derive from my own high tenor. But oddly, 70 years ago researchers came to a similar conclusion -- that men are attracted to deep-voiced women. At least that's how one speech professor interpreted the studies:
October 31, 1937
GIRLS ADVISED TO ADOPT LOW-PITCHED VOICE; IT ATTRACTS MEN, SAYS SPEECH SPECIALISTNEW ROCHELLE, N.Y., Oct. 30.--"Men are attracted to women with deep voices," declared Mrs. Allys Dwyer Vergara, Associate Professor of Speech at the College of New Rochelle, outlining a nation-wide broadcast on speech culture, which she will give on Nov. 8.
Defining the deep voice as "a low-pitched voice," Mrs. Vergara pointed out that experiments in acoustics conducted by C.C. Bunch and T.S. Raiford showed that "men hear low tones better than high tones."
If that's the case how can our rapidly rising population be explained given that, as the Washington Post reported in 1930, more and more of us sound like Mickey Mouse. Under the headline, "Men and women found acquiring higher voices," the Post reported "that human voices are becoming higher-pitched and squakier (sic.), with deep bases and contraltos growing scarcer every year, is the belief of George Dodds, a music teacher of Newcastle, England, expressed recently to the Incorporated Society of Musicians."
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Posted by: Office 2010 | March 14, 2011 at 02:33 AM