Men talk as much as Women? Options

[impala454]

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/4945688.html

A University of Texas at Austin psychologist and his colleagues appear to have laid to rest the long-standing myth that women talk more than men. Their study of 400 male and female students in the United States and Mexico found that males and females both say about 16,000 words a day, or 17 words a minute during waking hours.

another great statistic that gets labeled as 'research'.

400 students
recorded 30 seconds out of every 12.5 minutes = 57.6 total minutes recorded/day
each person was recorded for "up to" 10 days.

and they claim they have debunked the myth in our society that women talk more than men, based on recording 4% of 400 student's days for "up to" 10 days.

the things that get labeled as geniune research and rock solid results just baffle me nowadays.

[Testm0nkey]

if it passes through a statistical analysis and their findings are significant then you can scientifically say the results are significant to a greater population. god youre retarded. they wouldnt get their research funded, published, or supported by the university if it didnt meet standard practices

and men do talk more than women