A well -known fact (or myth? ) that women are more talkative than men. Scientists from the University of Arizona decided to conduct a study that finally revealed the truth.
For this analysis, the researchers recorded more than 2000 people. The result showed that the difference between floors is less than previously expected, writes Mailonline.
In total, for the study of 2197 participants, a device was worn, which periodically recorded short excerpts of sound throughout the time, except for sleep. Scientists have collected more than 600,000 records, and transcriptions calculated the number of words uttered by each participant.
The result showed that men spoke an average of 11,950 words per day, and women - 13,349. However, despite the conclusions showing that women are more talkative, experts say that the assumptions that women say more than men are a “stereotype”, often carrying negative connotations in themselves.
In other words, the gap is insufficient to say whether this difference was between the sexes of a significant and probable.
According to the 2007 study, men and women do not have significant differences in the daily use of words, pronouncing about 16,000 words per day each.
But scientists decided to conduct a new study, because the results of this were anxious because the study of the study was too small and consisted only of college students.
Therefore, a new study gives a clearer picture, but scientists suggest that further research of sexual differences may be needed.
“The study leaves some questions open to whether two sexes differ in almost significant way in how many words they pronounce every day,” they summed up and added that the idea that women and men differ in their daily lexical budget, not.