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New at Reason: Steve Chapman on Gender Differences and Speech

Do men and women communicate differently? Not according to a study conducted by James Pennebaker, chairman of the psychology department at the University of Texas at Austin, who found that men and women both utter about 16,000 words a day. But as Steve Chapman responds, if the average male is putting out 16,000 words every day, some guys must be gushing verbiage like Old Faithful to make up for the rest, many of whom might easily be mistaken for victims of lockjaw.

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