You Cannot Tell If A Woman Is Ovulating Just By Talking To Her
LatestWomen’s voices tend to vary in pitch over the course of their menstrual cycle, and scientists have speculated that this might help them advertise their fertility to men. Turns out, it doesn’t.
According to Wired, researchers recorded women’s voices at various times of month, then played them back to a sample of straight men. First of all, the voices were kind of all over the place: they “were highest three days before ovulation, lowered during ovulation, then rose again.” Second, dudes didn’t show a preference for the most ovulation-y pitches. The scientists’ shocking discovery: “Different men liked different things.”