Who Talks More?

A University of Texas at Austin psychologist and his colleagues appear to have laid to rest the long-standing myth that women talk more than men. Their study of 400 male and female students in the United States and Mexico found that men and women both say about 16,000 words a day, or 17 words a minute, during waking hours.

This is definitely not true in the Poop household. Despite what people may think, in truth Mrs. Poop never shuts up and I just want to watch the Mets play in silence. And one of her daily phone calls to her mother makes up more phone time than I spend in a year.