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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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Shivon Zilis

@shivon

Not to mention that we humans lack perfect attention, so who knows how much was actually heard and processed in the first place 😅

4:47 PM · Apr 3, 2022Twitter for iPhone

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Sorry, what were you saying? I was daydreaming while you were talking.

Shivon Zilis

@shivon

Apr 3

Story of my life, Mike… story of my life 😂

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Me: I didn't hear anything you said cause your eyes are so pretty and there's a skin flake hanging from your nostril..😆

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Check Nick Enfield’s “How we talk”. Seems to be more than 50%.

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DM'd.

@RyanTanaka3

Apr 3

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@shivon

This is the critical point to mention imo. ~10% on the speaker side, 25% on the listener side?

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Like lot of fighting while chatting

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The question is if information exchange (one subject intentionally wishing to share information with another subject) is the main function of communication. Niklas Luhman suggested otherwise: the function of communication is to communicate. See Luhman, What is Communication?

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Yeah, I had a similar thought thread of how much vision plays a role in error correction during a conversation.

Ademir De Oliveira Tavares

@AdemirD85164705

Apr 5

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@shivon

I will improve infinitelty...