Why do women blink nearly twice as much as men?
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ANSWERS: 5
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It's called batting our eyelashes and it is to make men succumb to our witty and gorgeous ways.
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maybe its because we've got more energy and our brains are working faster thinking of all the things we have to do! (only a guess... sorry!)
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The reason that women blink nearly twice as much as men simply has to do with how our brain processes loud noises and being startled. When studies were done on male vs. female and gay vs. straight reactions. It showed that a loud noise followed by a soft one made a woman blink hard and numerous times and a man responded with a softer blink and only one time. It also showed that Lesbians tended to react as men did (With fewer, lesser, blinks) and gay men also showed the same general number as straight men and lesbians. Hope this helps you at all. Here's a link to where you can find some general information about it! http://www.jefflewis.net/factoids.html (this guy researches myths/odd questions for a living. backing them up or proving them wrong with substantial data) Here is a link for the gay-straight page. http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=2121955
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Ok, here's my hypothesis - Women being generally smaller, have smaller eyeballs., which in turn would have a greater surface area, which would dry out faster hence the blinking to keep same eyeballs lubricated. So the next question is do children blink more than adults?
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we can't believe all the non-sense that you say and do!
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