14 DAY TRIAL // According to a recent investigation whose findings are detailed in a paper in the journal Scientific Reports, women do tend to talk more than men do, but only in certain contexts.
Thus, experiments carried out with the help of volunteers have revealed that women are more chatty when they have to complete a certain task and happen to have people around when carrying it out.
However, when taking part in informal conversations that aren't about getting a job done, they talk about as much as men do, Live Science tells us. Otherwise put, they are quieter than most think them to be.
As part of this study, 42 men and 37 men were asked to piece together a policy memo based on information that they were provided with. The task was individual, but the volunteers were given permission to discuss it with each other.
Later on, 16 men and 38 women were asked to simply talk to each other for about 12 hours, which were broken down into hour-long sessions. The volunteers were closely monitored during both the first and the second experiment.
It was thus discovered that, when having to produce the memo, the women did in fact talk more than the men did. More precisely, they consulted with one another about the task they were supposed to complete.
However, during casual conversation, no notable differences in terms of chattiness were documented between the male and the female volunteers, researchers write in the journal Scientific Reports.