Eaker and her colleagues found that, over a 10-year period, the most striking finding was that women who self-silenced were four times more likely to die than women who expressed themselves freely during marital arguments.

But now the Boston Globe has fact-checked a recent book making the claim that women just naturally talk more than men and use a far larger number of words per day than men do. And — surprise! — it’s pretty much unsubstantiated bullshit taken from

“Most studies reported either that men talked more than women, either overall or in some circumstances, or that there was no difference between the genders in amount of talk.”