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Let the truth be told: Science magazine has a new study out today in which the numbers are almost even-steven. Women: 16,125 words per day, men 15,669. Of course, the men and women studied were college students, whose behavioral patterns don't quite match that of the couple from Encino who have been married 35 years (with no one remembering the husband uttering a word for ther last 31 of them). The NYT Donald G. McNeil couldn't help but close out the story with a joke:
Man: Study here says women talk twice as much as men.Wife: Of course we do. We have to repeat everything we say.
Man: What?
Mark Lacter created the LA Biz Observed blog in 2006. He posted
until the day before his death on Nov. 13, 2013.