Study: Women's Desks Four Times More Dirty Than Men's (FoxNews)
Your office desk harbors far more bacteria than your workplace restroom, and if you're a woman, chances are your workspace has more germs than your male co-workers', a new research report shows.
Women have three to four times the number of bacteria in, on and around their desks, phones, computers, keyboards, drawers and personal items as men do, the study by University of Arizona professor Charles Gerba showed.
Gerba found the worst overall office germ offender is men's wallets."It's in your back pocket where it's nice and warm, it's a great incubator for bacteria," Gerba said.
The average office desktop has 400 times more bacteria than the average office toilet seat, Gerba said.
OK, it doesn't say, but could we then assume that a women's toilet seat has three to four times the bacteria as a men's toilet seat, like their desks; or, does the fact that a man has his wallet near his rear end cancel out that statistic and put it back on equal terms with a woman.
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Something tells me I'm going to hear this statistic referenced often and most likely used as support for some silly point you're trying to prove...I still love you though!
Mocha-Momma
I heard that doornobs have the most bacteria since people's hands touch them all the time, some touch them w/o washing their hands after using the toilets. Speaking of toilets, they are pretty clean if there are toilet tissue protector in the stall.
I dunno how a woman's desk can have more bacteria than a man since the avg woman is cleaner than the avg male.
Are you some kind of turncoat Mercy? Of course we're cleaner than women. And we have prettier nails too. ;)
Thank you, Mercy
Good point, kingdavid! What a job, counting bacteria. Hilarious.
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