This report from Zee News states than women talk 3 times more than men. Further, the author is attributing this 'prolixness' to the differential effects of pre-natal testosterone.
Dr Luan Brizendine, the author of the book ‘The Female Mind’, revealed that women devote more brain cells to talking than men, and says that there are inherent differences between the male and female brain that explain the reason why women naturally tend to be more talkative.
In fact, according to Dr Brizendine, a University of California psychiatrist, women tend to talk almost three times as much as men, with the average woman chalking up 20,000 words in a day - 13,000 words more than the average man...
Dr Brizendine says that the reason why women tend to talk up a storm can be traced back to the womb, where the sex hormone testosterone molds the developing male brain, and pares the areas of the brain responsible for communication, emotion and memory..."Women have an eight-lane superhighway for processing emotion, while men have a small country road," the Daily Mail quoted Dr Brizendine, who runs a female "mood and hormone" clinic in San Francisco.
Steroid Nation is not sure of the scientific validity of these statements. However, they might go a long way in explaining the loquaciousness of a certain Dick Vitale.
Lower testosterone > more development of verbal areas of brain > motor mouth
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