This is not excellent science. The author even says "Now, that's not research". Instead, it's a test that the methodology might be used to do science. Another

This is not excellent science. The author even says "Now, that's not research". Instead, it's a test that the methodology might be used to do science. Another way might be to look at presentation transcripts. Picking two TED talks from the top Google hits for "TED talk transcript", I found http://www.ted.com/talks/christopher_soghoian_government_surveillance_this_is_just_the_beginning/transcript http://www.ted.com/talks/christopher_soghoian_government_sur... and http://www.ted.com/talks/susan_cain_the_power_of_introverts/transcript http://www.ted.com/talks/susan_cain_the_power_of_introverts/... . The word "just" appears 4 times from the male speaker, and 12 from the female speaker. There are 10 from this female speaker, http://www.ted.com/talks/amy_cuddy_your_body_language_shapes_who_you_are/transcript http://www.ted.com/talks/amy_cuddy_your_body_language_shapes... , and 8 from this male speaker http://www.ted.com/talks/tony_robbins_asks_why_we_do_what_we_do/transcript http://www.ted.com/talks/tony_robbins_asks_why_we_do_what_we... . Bill Gates uses "just" 8 times in http://blog.ted.com/bill_gates_talk/ http://blog.ted.com/bill_gates_talk/ while Maryn McKenna uses it 3 times in her talk at http://www.ted.com/talks/maryn_mckenna_what_do_we_do_when_antibiotics_don_t_work_any_more/transcript?language=en http://www.ted.com/talks/maryn_mckenna_what_do_we_do_when_an... . From this alone we can see there's some variability, as McKenna uses "just" less frequently than any of the male speakers. Based on this, it's clear that a much larger corpus needs to be used to tell if there's anything meaningful in that observation about the gender preference in the use of "just."