Boring talkers

By Ken Y-N ( January 16, 2012 at 01:45) ? Filed under Polls, Rankings

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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