The average number of words spoken per day by a woman aged between 25 and 64, according to new research. That’s 3,000 more than the average man. The stereotype that women speak more than men was believed to have been debunked by a 2007 paper, but scientists pointed out that it was only looking at students in Austin, Texas. A wider study of 2,000 people of all ages in four countries found that in their middle years, women do speak more than men. But there was more difference within the sexes than between them: The least talkative individual was a man, who spoke around 100 words a day, and the most talkative was also a man, who spoke more than 120,000. |