The study claims it "debunked" the notion that women talk more than men. With the US population being just over 300,000,000 people (and the world population being 6,000,000,000 people), 396 college students is hardly a representative sample group to give empirical evidence to support the conclusions of the study. True science starts without any preconceived notions and tracks the progress of the experiment before drawing conclusions. Junk science, which is the foundation of politicized social experimentation, starts with a desired outcome and manipulates the experiment and the data to support the desired outcome. If the study here were to be honest and forthright, it would have only claimed (and been able to support) that college kids at whatever campus hosted the study had men and women college students speak close to the same number of words. There is nothing in the study, as it is written, to support applying the ratio to the population of the US or world accurately. Therefore, nothing was *debunked*. I found the study interesting, but nowhere near accurate enough to overcome known evolutionary physiological difference between men and women.