Talking stereotypes

In my household, the woman talks more than the man, and this agrees with traditional stereotypes for male and female behavior. The stereotype, however, turns out to be false. In a study conducted at the University of Texas at Austin , about 200 female and 200 male students wore voice recorders during their waking hours that automatically turned on every 12.5 minutes to record for 30 seconds. The recordings were transcribed, counted, and extrapolated to estimate a daily word count. The verdict: men and women averaged roughly the same verbosity, both emitting about16,000 words a day. link