There are numerous stereotypes about the differences that exist between men and women, and most respond to preconceived ideas without any scientific basis. But now, science responds to One of those clichés.
This is what women say they speak more than men. Researchers of the Arizona University (USA) They registered more than 2,000 people to discover if men or women are more communicative.
In general, the men spoke an average of 11,950 words a day, but the women exceeded this figure with an average of 13,349 words a dayaccording to the study.
However, the difference between sexes is less than what was previously supposed, according to the team. Despite the findings, experts claim that the assumption that women speak more than men is a “stereotype” that often entails negative connotations.
“It is widely believed that women They are more communicative that men, “says experts in their article, published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
“The ubiquity and often negative connotation of this stereotype make it evaluate its accuracy Be particularly important“, say the authors of the investigation.
For the study, a total of 2,197 participants They used a device that intermittently recorded short sound fragments throughout their vigil hours. After collecting more than 600,000 recordings, the transcriptors had the number of words pronounced by each participant.
These data were then processed to estimate the total number of spoken words per day. In general, the study confirmed that women pronounced slightly more words per day than men, but the difference was small: 1,073 media words.
However, the researchers discovered that there were great individual differences in Locatorcy, which adds “Statistical uncertainty” to the findings.
In other words, there is not a sufficient gap to be able to say if this difference observed between the sexes was significant or reliable. The least talkative participant said less than 100 words per day, while the most talkative pronounced 120,000 words per day.
If we consider that the average vigil day lasts 16 hours, that means approximately 7,500 words per hour, or 125 words per minute.
“The study leaves some questions about whether the two genres differ practically significantlyA In the amount of words they pronounce daily, “add the authors.
“The notion that women and men differ in their daily lexical budget has existed, to a large extent Without being empirically provenfor quite some time, and has become an omnipresent element in arguments on gender differences, “they conclude.
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