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And now welcome to the award-winning best of a left podcast with Cubs today from Upwardly,

propaganda, decode DC, democracy now on the media, backtalk, and counter spend.

I'm a guy and I know why these guys do this. The bottom line is this way. I'm sorry, go ahead.

I'm calm down a bit here Kelly. If it's a legitimate race. I'll let you finish. But Beyoncé

had one of the best videos of all. You've probably seen some of these cringe-worthy moments before.

They spend from politics to pop culture but they have one thing in common.

A wildly overconfident man interrupting, shushing, and holding forth on a topic that he

might not be the most qualified spokesman for. This phenomenon has become known as men's

planning. It's the word that's launched a thousand think pieces, including a few that are

clearly over it. But we wondered what does the science have to say about it?

Back in 1984, a study observed that female doctors were more than twice as likely to be

interrupted by patients than their male counterparts. A 2004 study found that many

at Harvard Law were more than 50% more likely to comment in class and 144% more likely to speak

up more than twice. And it happens in the workplace. A 2012 study found that when tasked with

a group decision by majority, though women spoke less than 75% as much as men. The media is not

much better. A 2012 study found that men write 80% of traditional opinion pieces and 67% of them online.

And the data shows that while there are fewer men than women on Twitter, men are retweeted

more than twice as often. With the science shows that man's planning isn't an overused word

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