Apparently, women don’t talk all that much more than men do after all.

Researchers set out to challenge the findings in a recent book written by a noted neuropsychiatrist that “a woman uses about 20,000 words a day, while a man uses only about 7,000.”

In a series of studies conducted over six years, they recorded the conversations of nearly 400 U.S. and Mexican male and female university students.

The results: women spoke a daily average of 16,215 words during their waking hours, versus an average of 15,669 words for men.