Refer to Data Set 24 “Word Counts” in Appendix B and use the measured word counts from men in the third column and the measured word counts from women in the fourth column. Use a 0.01 significance level to test the claim that contrary to a popular myth, the median of the numbers of words spoken by men in a day is the same as the median of the numbers of words spoken by women in a day.

Data Set 24: Word Counts 

Data are from counts of the numbers of words spoken in a day by 396 male (M) and female (F) subjects in six different sample groups (first five rows shown here). Column M1 denotes the word counts for males in Sample 1, F1 is the count for females in Sample 1, and so on.

Sample 1: Recruited couples ranging in age from 18 to 29
Sample 2: Students recruited in introductory psychology classes, aged 17 to 23
Sample 3: Students recruited in introductory psychology classes in Mexico, aged 17 to 25
Sample 4: Students recruited in introductory psychology classes, aged 17 to 22
Sample 5: Students recruited in introductory psychology classes, aged 18 to 26
Sample 6: Students recruited in introductory psychology classes, aged 17 to 23

Results were published in “Are Women Really More Talkative Than Men?” by Mehl, Vazire, Ramirez-Esparza, Slatcher, Pennebaker, Science, Vol. 317, No. 5834.