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What Scientists Learned by Eavesdropping on Thousands of People | The New Yorker

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After researchers found that we’re speaking less and less each year, Shayla Love spent a week collecting audio recordings from her own life.

Save this story Save this story Twenty years ago, a team of psychologists reviewed audio from almost four hundred university students who had been carrying “electronically activated recorders”— EAR s—for several days in a row. Five times an hour, the devices automatically turned on for thirty seconds. The psychologists then analyzed the audio to test a popular claim. A recent book, “ The Female Brain ,” had asserted that women were intrinsically chattier than men—blabbing roughly twenty thousand words a day, while men uttered only seven thousand. The study found no evidence of that. On a typic

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