Friday, July 06, 2007

"According to the Texas scientists, none of the groups of volunteers “provided support for the idea that women have substantially larger lexical budgets than men. Further, to the extent that sex differences in daily word use are assumed to be biologically based evolved adaptations, they should be detectable among university students as much as in more diverse samples. We therefore conclude . . . that the widespread and highly publicized stereotype about female talkativeness is unfounded.”"