News Finding: When the two genders are speaking to each other, they try to meet in the middle: "Males use uh about 14 percent less often when talking with a female rather than a male, and females use uh about about 20 percent more often when talking with a male rather than a female," Liberman writes.
Paper Finding: Gender provides a familiar and easy to understand proof of concept for open-vocabulary analysis.
News Context: Usage of 'Uh' and 'Um' Among Men and Women
  
  Overall, he found that women say "um" 22 percent more than men do, but men say "uh" more than twice as often as women do. When the two genders are speaking to each other, they try to meet in the middle: "Males use uh about 14 percent less often when talking with a female rather than a male, and females use uh about about 20 percent more often when talking with a male rather than a female," Liberman writes. (There's not nearly as much accommodation with "um.")
Paper Context: This is not too surprising since openness exhibits the most variation across conditions of other studies (for examples, see ), and its component traits are most loosely related . Gender provides a familiar and easy to understand proof of concept for open-vocabulary analysis. All results are significant at Bonferroni-corrected pv0:001.