Do women use more colour names than men?

I just came across this funny cartoon about the difference between men and women in terms of colour names.

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But on the same page I found the results from an actual colour survey where over five million colours were named across 222,500 user sessions. One aspect of the results is shown below:

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It does seem that there is some evidence that women use more colour names than men – though generally there was agreement between how the names were used. For further details see the original article.

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