Why Email Starts Fights

Fascinating. I guess now I understand why I prefer video chat to email.

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7 Responses to Why Email Starts Fights

Jozef says:

March 12, 2009 at 8:08 am

I disagree with the 7% figure for verbal communication. Having been diagnosed with Asperger’s years ago and the lack of understanding of non-verbal communication, I did not have enough misunderstandings to account for 93% of missed communication. Maybe 50% (down to maybe 20% with treatment now), but I’ve never missed nearly all communication.
marcorandazza says:

March 12, 2009 at 9:09 am

Perhaps you don’t have a *complete* lack of understanding of non-verbal communication, but just a diminished capacity?
Jozef says:

March 12, 2009 at 9:52 am

I wouldn’t know; I just took my shrink’s words for granted…
Windypundit says:

March 12, 2009 at 10:44 am

Looked at another way, this is why writing well is a valuable skill. Good writers have presumably found ways to make up for the information lost in the other channels.
marcorandazza says:

March 12, 2009 at 10:53 am

U R right. Pwnage!
NoDuh... says:

March 13, 2009 at 6:53 am

Now who’s trying to start a fight ?

Show your face !
Let your voice be heard !
It’s highly unlikely (<7%) for me to know what you mean.
The Principal’s Office « Tatiana von Tauber says:

March 13, 2009 at 11:37 pm

[...] I am no longer a name in the list of parents. I presented the whole package of communication: my words, tone of voice and my face. In other words, I’m a human being. That said, so was the principal, which makes it [...]