Let's give them something to talk about!

For years, people have been telling me that women talk too much, and I've always thought it was complete bullshit. I mean, *I* talk too much, but not women as a whole! Luckily for us women, a study has finally proven that those "women talk more than men" statistics really shouldn't have been given any lip service!

Stereotypes tell us that women are the chattier sex, prone to detailed verbal accounts of emotions and events while men brood silently in front of the television.

Now, a scientific study refutes that, finding that the daily amount of words used by men and women is virtually the same.

The results, to be published Friday in the journal Science, also contradict an oft-cited figure: that women use nearly three times as many words as men, or 20,000 words a day for women versus 7,000 for men.

When the information from 210 women and 186 men was compiled, both groups were found to use, on average, roughly 16,000 words a day.

To be exact, women used 16,215 and men, 15,669. The difference of 546 words is not statistically significant, according to the researchers.

"What's a 500-word difference, compared with the 45,000-word difference between the most and the least talkative persons" in the study, said Matthias R. Mehl, an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Arizona, who led the team that came up with the finding.

Take that you sexist people who have quoted made up numbers and statistics! At the very least, these findings should give everyone something to talk about...

Essin' Em

Check out the results of the study and more at the ChicagoTribune.com