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To test the widespread belief that women naturally talk more than men—with estimates claiming women speak $$20,000$$ words per day compared to men's $$7,000$$—researchers conducted an empirical study with $$369$$ college students. By having the participants wear audio recorders, they found women spoke an average of $$16,215$$ words per day and men $$15,669$$. This extremely small difference, which could be explained by chance, provided empirical evidence that the stereotype of female talkativeness is unfounded.

Female Talkativeness Stereotype Study

In an empirical study using audio recorders to track the daily word count of college students, what did researchers discover regarding the stereotype that women naturally talk more than men?

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