http://www.physorg.com/news102865702.html - Do women really talk more than men?

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Refuting the popular stereotype that females talk more than men, researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have found women and men both use an average of 16,000 words each day.
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Yeah, but I think the researchers were probably men. And men tune out like 1/2 of what women say. :P

And women used those 16,000 words over and over and over and over...

Okay, so UNIVERSITY STUDENTS males and females both use about 16,000 words a day.  Well, of course they do.

They're not married, they're flirting like mad, they're well educated, they don't even HAVE a job, they don't have kids, and they're in classes or doing homework or attending frat parties.

But I'd submit that's a very distorted population to be looking at, giving data that's valid for only 4 to 8 years of somebody's life.

>Okay, so UNIVERSITY STUDENTS males and females both use about 16,000 words a day.

That's exactly what I thought when I heard that yesterday. It was reported as if it's a wide-ranging observation of society, and then they added that it was determined by monitoring students.

Come on.

Were any of those 16,000 words 'louche'?

With world hunger, global warming and nuclear proliferation yet to be conquered, it's reassuring to know that our scientists are busy working on such important projects as "which gender talks more".

Maybe they can make some replicators like Star Trek when it comes to world hunger, but those other two require hippies.

Well, AG, I feel sure those other topics are getting lots of coverage by PhD candidates too.

It's just that male-female relationships are 'sexy', and get all the press.

I think the scientists are wondering how different men and women are, and so whether it be scientifically propitious to have the more communicative gender rule the world and address issues like 'world hunger, global warming and nuclear proliferation'.

Yeah, but whether that soap star's tits are real doesn't do much to solve world hunger.

Don't worry, with neuropeptide Y, every woman can have have perfect, naturally fatty tits (and vice versa, with NPY-blockers, no one need be fat).