Brizendine and Pennebakar

• what did Brizendine state in her book “the female brain”


  women speak an average of 20,000 words, men spike 7,000
• what did Brizendine admit after stating the word count of both genders in her book

  she didn’t do research, and made it up
• what did Pennebaker find after conducting studies

  women and men speak around the same number of words per day
• what did pennebaker find a difference within

  the same gender groups. the most talkative and quietest in the groups were both men