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Why can a woman produce more words than men?
Asked by Antony Jegan,
14 Feb '09 08:29 pm
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Study: Men Talk Just as Much as Women
by Richard Knox
Angel Herrero de Frutos, iStockphoto.com
Researchers recorded hundreds of students, capturing 30 seconds of sound for every 12-and-a-half minutes. The chattiest of the subjects, at nearly 47,000 words per day, were men.
All Things Considered, July 5, 2007 An article in this week's issue of Science blasts the popular myth that women are more talkative than men.
Researchers outfitted 396 college students 345 Americans and 51 Mexicans with devices that automatically recorded them every 12 1/2 minutes, which amounts to 4 percent of a person's daily utterances.
The researchers found that women speak a little more than 16,000 words a day. Men speak a little less than 16,000 words. The difference is not statistically significant.
Psychologist Matthias Mehl of the University of Arizona says the three top talkers in the study uttering up to 47,000 words a day were all men. So was the most taciturn subject, who spoke only 700 words a d ...more
Answered by KARTIKAY SHARMA, 14 Feb '09 08:34 pm
by Richard Knox
Angel Herrero de Frutos, iStockphoto.com
Researchers recorded hundreds of students, capturing 30 seconds of sound for every 12-and-a-half minutes. The chattiest of the subjects, at nearly 47,000 words per day, were men.
All Things Considered, July 5, 2007 An article in this week's issue of Science blasts the popular myth that women are more talkative than men.
Researchers outfitted 396 college students 345 Americans and 51 Mexicans with devices that automatically recorded them every 12 1/2 minutes, which amounts to 4 percent of a person's daily utterances.
The researchers found that women speak a little more than 16,000 words a day. Men speak a little less than 16,000 words. The difference is not statistically significant.
Psychologist Matthias Mehl of the University of Arizona says the three top talkers in the study uttering up to 47,000 words a day were all men. So was the most taciturn subject, who spoke only 700 words a d ...more
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She is more social talkative and on an average she talks more than 20000 words in a day ..
Answered by sarya mitra, 02 Sep '10 07:13 pm
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It is a myth both are equally talkative ,in fact men talk more than women
Answered by indrajeet, 14 Feb '09 08:40 pm
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