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by MiddleEndian 3464 days ago
Https://ubrp.arizona.edu/study-finds-no-difference-in-the-amount-men-and-women-talk/

Average man uses 15,669 words/day, woman uses 16,215. Let's say average household has two people and half those words are spoken at home, 31,884/2 = 15,942. Let's say 8 bytes per word on average, just under 128k/day. That's a little under 47 MB/year. Not too expensive.

Edited with better source/numbers.

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> There has never been any "study" showing that "women talk almost three times as much as men", although this non-existent "research" has been cited by dozens of science writers, relationship counselors, celebrity preachers, and other people in the habit of claiming non-existent authoritative support for their personal impressions;
Well shit my bad. That was the top result from Google with just those numbers quoted when I searched for average number of words spoken per day. I should've been more thorough. Let me see if I can find better numbers.

Edit: Done