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Are you Jewish? || Do you tend to follow conversational norms where people talk over each other, or do you tend to wait for people to be totally finished before talking?

yes || talk over
8.7%
yes || wait for finished
5.6%
no || talk over
27%
no || wait for finished
58.7%

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8:29 PM · Oct 9, 2021

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Talk over friends yes Anyone else no

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@mechanical_monk

Oct 9, 2021

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@Aella_Girl

it would drive me crazy to be in a culture where interrupting each other is normal

Neuropsych Grad Student

@CharlesBartho15

Oct 9, 2021

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@Aella_Girl

Wow, a lot more significant difference than I’d expect

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I get too excited to talk, so if I feel the other person is not giving me space in conversation, then I’ll assert myself. Terrible trait to unlearn

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A potential confounder is whether the respondents are American or not.

Idan ("eden") Solon ("sew-lin") (

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Mother’s side is Jewish, and if I talk over someone I usually apologize for doing so and ask them to continue.

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Here's a thread and/or blog post about this kind of 'collaborative overlapping dialogue'

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hormeze

@hormeze

May 6, 2021

turned this into a full-length blog post here: imaryeh.com/blog/ay-chavru

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I know a few people who will talk for ages about a subject, even saying the same point, over and over again, if I don't interrupt, it could last hours and I just don't have time for that

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FUCK, my gf and I were talking about this a few months ago. I’m raised Jewish, she was raised around Jews, and we both talk over each other.