Re: poor manners... WAY off topic

[John Cunningham <johnc@together.net>]

Brandon Hull wrote:

> One fascinating aspect of an online communities is that it is difficult to
> qualify the person(s) with whom you are interacting.  At your cocktail
> party, for example, you would meet someone new, and instantly their age,
> sex, appearance, vocabulary, and a hundred other inputs would help you
> calibrate the exchange you're having.

i noted an interesting article in the NYT recently about a study that indicated
phone interviews were much more likely to be accurate evaluations of people than
in-person interviews, i.e. that often we presume far too much from visual
clues...


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John J Cunningham III           Project Leader / Technical Analyst
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