Overview
| Image: Metrograph Pictures Researchers at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and the University of Arizona say that between 2005 and 2019, the number of words we speak out loud to another human being fell by nearly 28 percent.
Significance
And that has likely only gotten worse following the pandemic.
Supporting Details
- The researchers actually counted the number of words we were speaking on average (16,632 in 2005).
- They looked at data from 22 studies in which over 2,000 people recorded audio of their daily lives.
- Over time, as ordering through apps became the norm, texting increased, and our lives became increasingly online, they found that number had dropped dramatically.
- By 2019, we were onl … Read the full story at The Verge.
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Background Context
Nobody is talking. | Image: Metrograph Pictures Researchers at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and the University of Arizona say that between 2005 and 2019, the number of words we speak out loud to another human being fell by nearly 28 percent. And that has likely only gotten worse following the pandemic. The researchers actually counted the number of words we were speaking on average (16,632 in 2005). They looked at data from 22 studies in which over 2,000 people recorded audio of their daily lives. Over time, as ordering through apps became the norm, texting increased, and our lives became increasingly online, they found that number had dropped dramatically. By 2019, we were onl … R
Source: The Verge – Original Link
Source: The Verge
