The first thing to say about this one is we didn’t conduct this study, so don’t shoot the messenger… But here it is – men don’t really listen to their female partners. In an experiment using hetero couples, researchers asked individuals how they thought their household ranked in terms of relative income. They deliberately picked that question because it’s frequently answered incorrectly. When they gave some individuals the correct answer, they found that the women could repeat that information regardless of whether it was conveyed to them by their partner or someone else. But men only got it right after they were told by someone else. If the correct answer was given to him by their female partner, he completely forgot/ignored/overrode what she’d said. If it makes the blokes feel better, it was a German study, and Aussie blokes are much better at listening, right?