So we conducted a survey polling respondents of all ages, genders and locations to see who is most prone to forgetting their anniversary. Drum roll please… the women! Yes it likely comes as no shock, but women remember their anniversary at a much higher rate than men do. Our survey obtained results from a number of demographics, including a range of income levels. And interestingly enough, the more money respondents made the less likely they were to forget.
Whether we like the big city life of, say, New York City, or prefer the sandy beaches of Southern California, where we live often affects our priorities and, apparently, our memory.
We noted regional differences in how likely young individuals were to remember their anniversary. Watch him pale. Look at those eyes, glimmering with panic. Has he forgotten something?
He doesn't know. He isn't sure. He didn't get the Facebook notification. Men are usually terrible at remembering anniversaries — this has been a joke staple in the comedy circuit since the dawn of civilisation — but that doesn't mean that we don't care. Men and women just speak different languages of love, and we show our love in different ways.
Some men may be into grand gestures of romance and others not so much. I personally lean towards the not-so-much, and I struggle with special dates. I think that the idea of commemorating anything, year after year, is generally stupid. I forget birthdays, I give the holidays a skip, and I have to be reminded about anniversaries. I reply to e-mails a week late, I've had the same 37 tabs open in my browser for about five months now reminder, I should take myself out for drinks to commemorate this , and I'm not entirely confident of what day of the week it is.
This is who I am. Not caring about anniversaries, however, and not caring about your partner, are two completely different things. I, like most men, only care about anniversaries because I care about the woman I'm with. These special days, though completely pointless to me, might be important to her, and I don't want to let her down or hurt her feelings.
So, I set reminders. So many, many reminders. A man will forget his own mother's birthday as if to prove my point, I just had a mild anxiety attack and had to check if I'd missed my mother's birthday. I haven't, it's a month and five days from now , but he'll be able to tell you the exact score and team line-up of a football match that took place 15 years ago. We all unconsciously rank events and dates by importance, and what's important to one person may be completely trivial to another.
Subscribe Sign In. Names and dates are also hardest to remember for women. These problems accelerate with age, but to a much lesser extent than the researchers believed before. Women forget just as much whether they are 30 or 50 years old. The study also shows that people who are more highly educated forget less than those with less education.
People who suffer from anxiety or depression forget more than other people do. This is true for people of both sexes. Holmen wants to see whether people who self-reported problems with remembering at a younger age are also at a higher risk of developing dementia. It is important to emphasise that we still don't know what clinical importance these problems with remembering have.
But we might know this in a few years. Problems with remembering at a younger age might not have any importance either.
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