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.

[James]

The problem is that you're getting your information from a newspaper instead of reading the actual journal. I'm sure all of the concerns have been addressed there or it never would have made it to publication. For instance, the newspaper never actually states in which environment men talk as much as women.