Gendered word counts again

The "words per day" thing has mostly gone quiet since it erupted in the media nearly 20 years ago — but here's a sensible replay:

For more about the general background than you want to know, see

"Neuroscience in the service of sexual stereotypes" (8/6/2006) "Sex-linked lexical budgets" (8/6/2006) "Sex and speaking rate" (8/7/2006) "Yet another sex-n-wordcount sighting" (8/14/2006) "The main job of the girl brain" (9/2/2006) "The superior cunning of women" (9/2/2006) "The laconic rapist in the womb" (9/4/2006) "Open-access sex stereotypes" (9/10/2006) "David Brooks, Neuroendocrinologist" (9/17/2006) "Gabby guys: the effect size" (9/25/2006) ""Every 52 seconds": wrong by 23,736 percent?" (10/13/2006) "Guys are a bit gabbier in Dutch, too" (10/16/2006) "Two new reviews of Brizendine" (10/30/2006) "Word counts" (11/28/2006) "Bible Science Stories" (12/2/2006) "Sex differences in "communication events" per day?" (12/11/2006) "The first time?" (7/5/2007) "Female talkativeness: 'Knowledge protected against induction'" (7/6/2007) "Interview: The new fashion for biological determinism" (8/10/2008) "The defend-your-turf area?" (3/29/2010)