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Tens of studies on the difference in vocabulary size between old and young adults. Positive effect sizes indicate that old adults know more words than young adults. Each circle represents a study. Circles at the bottom come from studies with few participants (about 20), studies at the top come from large studies (300 participants or more).
Source: Verhaeghen (2003).
