Choose the best answer to the questions. (Para. 1) Contrary to popular belief, researchers have found that men gossip just as much as women. In one English study, both sexes devoted the same amount of conversation time (about 65 per cent) to social topics such as personal relationships; in another, the difference was found to be quite small, with gossip accounting for 55 per cent of male conversation time and 67 per cent of female time. As sport and leisure have been shown to occupy about ten per cent of conversation time, discussion of football could well account for the difference. What does the research quoted in the passage show?