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Refuting the popular stereotype that females talk more than men, researchers at The University of Texas have found women and men both use an average of 16,000 words each day.
The psychology researchers published their findings in “Are women really more talkative than men?” in the July 6 issue of Science.
For more than a decade, researchers have claimed that women use far more words each day than men. One set of numbers that is commonly tossed around is that women use 20,000 words per day compared to only 7,000 for men.
“These findings have been reported widely by national media and have entered the cultural mainstream,” James W. Pennebaker, co-author of the study, said.
“Although many people believe the stereotypes of females as talkative and males as reticent, there is no large-scale study that systematically has recorded the natural conversations of large groups of people for extended period of time.”
For eight years, the psychology researchers have developed a method for recording natural language using the electronically activated recorder (EAR). The unobtrusive digital voice recorder tracks people’s interactions, including their conversations.
The researchers analyzed the transcripts of almost 400 university students in the United States and Mexico whose daily interactions were recorded between 1998 and 2004.
The research participants could not control the EAR, which automatically records for 30 seconds every 12.5 minutes, and did not know when the device was on.
The score is women with 16,215 words each day and men 15,669. The difference by 546 words is “not statistically significant,” the authors conclude.
人们通常认为女性比男性话多，德克萨斯大学研究人员的发现颠覆了这一传统观念，研究结果显示女性和男性每天的话语量均为1万6千字左右。
心理学研究人员的研究成果发表于7月6日这一期《科学》杂志，题为《女性真的比男性能说吗？》
十多年来，研究人员一直认为女性每天说的话比男性要多得多，得到普遍认可的一组数据为女性每天的话语量为2万字，而男性仅为7千字。
这一研究结果的合著者詹姆斯·W·佩尼贝克先生说：“最新发现已被大众媒体广泛传播，逐步进入主流文化。”
“尽管很多人依然持有女性比较多话而男性比较沉默的老观念，但研究人员尚无法通过大规模的研究对大批人群在相当长的一段时间内的自然对话进行系统统计。”
八年来，心理学研究人员们开发了一种名为“电子活性录音器（EAR）”来记录人们的自然对话，这种电子录音设备能追踪人与人之间包括对话在内的各种交流，同时也不会让被调查者感到不适。
研究人员研究了主要来自于1998至2004年间400名美国和墨西哥大学生的日常交流的记录。
EAR录音设备每12.5分钟会自动记录30秒，参与此次研究的人员实际上无法控制设备的工作，也不知道它们什么时候会启动。
研究成果最终为，女性每天的话语量是16215字，而男性为15669字，其中546字的差额在统计上可忽略不计。 ★
The psychology researchers published their findings in “Are women really more talkative than men?” in the July 6 issue of Science.
For more than a decade, researchers have claimed that women use far more words each day than men. One set of numbers that is commonly tossed around is that women use 20,000 words per day compared to only 7,000 for men.
“These findings have been reported widely by national media and have entered the cultural mainstream,” James W. Pennebaker, co-author of the study, said.
“Although many people believe the stereotypes of females as talkative and males as reticent, there is no large-scale study that systematically has recorded the natural conversations of large groups of people for extended period of time.”
For eight years, the psychology researchers have developed a method for recording natural language using the electronically activated recorder (EAR). The unobtrusive digital voice recorder tracks people’s interactions, including their conversations.
The researchers analyzed the transcripts of almost 400 university students in the United States and Mexico whose daily interactions were recorded between 1998 and 2004.
The research participants could not control the EAR, which automatically records for 30 seconds every 12.5 minutes, and did not know when the device was on.
The score is women with 16,215 words each day and men 15,669. The difference by 546 words is “not statistically significant,” the authors conclude.
人们通常认为女性比男性话多，德克萨斯大学研究人员的发现颠覆了这一传统观念，研究结果显示女性和男性每天的话语量均为1万6千字左右。
心理学研究人员的研究成果发表于7月6日这一期《科学》杂志，题为《女性真的比男性能说吗？》
十多年来，研究人员一直认为女性每天说的话比男性要多得多，得到普遍认可的一组数据为女性每天的话语量为2万字，而男性仅为7千字。
这一研究结果的合著者詹姆斯·W·佩尼贝克先生说：“最新发现已被大众媒体广泛传播，逐步进入主流文化。”
“尽管很多人依然持有女性比较多话而男性比较沉默的老观念，但研究人员尚无法通过大规模的研究对大批人群在相当长的一段时间内的自然对话进行系统统计。”
八年来，心理学研究人员们开发了一种名为“电子活性录音器（EAR）”来记录人们的自然对话，这种电子录音设备能追踪人与人之间包括对话在内的各种交流，同时也不会让被调查者感到不适。
研究人员研究了主要来自于1998至2004年间400名美国和墨西哥大学生的日常交流的记录。
EAR录音设备每12.5分钟会自动记录30秒，参与此次研究的人员实际上无法控制设备的工作，也不知道它们什么时候会启动。
研究成果最终为，女性每天的话语量是16215字，而男性为15669字，其中546字的差额在统计上可忽略不计。 ★