Spoken Words Couples were recruited for a study of how many words people speak in a day. A random sample of 56 males resulted in a mean of 16,576 words and a standard deviation of 7,871 words. Use a 0.01 significance level to test the claim that males have a standard deviation that is greater than the standard deviation of 7,460 words for females (based on Data Set 24 "Word Counts").