Boring talkers January 17, 2012
goo Ranking took a look recently at the features of boring talkers.
Demographics
Over the 25th and 26th of November 2011 1,074 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 57.4% of the sample were female, 11.6% in their teens, 14.7% in their twenties, 26.9% in their thirties, 25.0% in their forties, 11.1% in their fifties, and 10.7% aged sixty or older. Note that the score in the results refers to the relative number of votes for each option, not a percentage of the total sample.
Number 5 is the reason I usually dislike work events, as they either talk shop (hmm, why wasn?t that in this list?) or talk about ex-colleagues or contacts in obscure departments that I have never heard of, let alone the person themselves!
Ranking result
Q: What are the characteristics of a boring talker? (Sample size=1,074)
Rank ? Score 1 Always boasting 100 2 Butts into other people?s talk 76.4 3 No punchline to their talk 74.0 4 Always pessimistic 63.7 5 Always talking about people I don?t know 52.4 6 Doesn?t have an opinion of their own 49.6 7 Has a poison tongue 47.3 8 ?You had to be there to understand? 44.2 9 Always repeats the same thing that they find interesting themselves 39.0 10 Hopeless at the lead-in to topics 36.1 11 Tells old jokes 34.8 12 Talks with a smug look 34.7 13 Gets overexcited and talks too fast 31.9 14 Vague with their back-channeling 30.6 15 Gets all their topics from television 26.3 16 Laughs at their own jokes 25.3 17 Doesn?t correct things when they trip over their own tongue 23.3 18 Throws ?LOL?, ?ROFL?, other internet lingo into conversation 22.6 19 Uses material from comedians word-for-word 19.4 20 Throws obscure in-jokes into conversation 19.1
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