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Shivon Zilis

@shivon

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Apr 3

What % communication loss is there between two people in a verbal conversation? Between unclear word choices, differences in the preloaded constructs in each party’s head, and differing emotions and incentives it feels like it averages to north of 20%? Curious what others think.

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JNelsenMT

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Between my closest friends and I, I think it's a low number - often less than 1%, a big reason why we are friends. I have some coworkers who have the habit of using excessive pronouns in their speech; with them, losses exceed 25% . (esp, when misassigning pronoun-subject guesses)

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