16,000 Audible Words Per Day

[cricket]

Who talks more in your family? In mine, the numbers are fairly equal, but it sure seems as if my husband talks twice as much.

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Summarizing:

1.There has never been any "study" showing that "women talk almost three times as much as men", although this non-existent "research" has been cited by dozens of science writers, relationship counselors, celebrity preachers, and other people in the habit of claiming non-existent authoritative support for their personal impressions;

2.Real-world studies of gender differences in language use indicate that men and women are about equally talkative. One large, relatively recent study (M.R. Mehlet al., "Are Women Really More Talkative Than Men?", Science, 317(5834) p. 82 July 5, 2007) found essentially equal counts of about 16,000 words per day in six samples of university students in the U.S. and Mexico.

Source: Language Log: An Invented Statistic Returns