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Post by account_disabled on May 1, 2024 19:29:35 GMT -8
The analysis uses data from TopCoder s software contest platform on which elite software developers wEconometric relationships are identified by exploiting random assignment and a separate instrumental variables procedure. Paper InformationDecoding the Artful Sidestep by Martha Lagace Do you notice when someone changes the subject after you ask them a question If you don t always notice or even mind such conversational transformations you re not alone. New research by Todd Rogers and Harvard Business School professor Michael I. Norton explores the common occurrence of conversational blindness. Q A with Rogers. Key concepts include In Brazil Phone Number List the study speakers who dodged a question suffered no ill will from their listeners and paid no price. People prefer trust and like a question dodger who is smooth and sounds confident over a question answerer who is unsmooth and stammers. If you re a listener who wants to avoid conversational blindness on important matters here s a tip Remember your question. We heard question dodging in the U.S. presidential debates not long ago. And everyone hears it in normal political discourse in business meetings and in typical daily lifeābut are people really listening Sometimes it seems individuals who are asked a difficult question do not answer it but instead provide distraction by answering something they would rather have been asked. And what is more oftentimes their listeners either do not notice the verbal sleight of hand or do not mind it. New research by Todd Rogers HBS Ph.D and Harvard Business School professor Michael I.
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