mboverload wrote:
My ability to convey sarcasm over the internet sucks.
I suck =(
"""According to recent research published in the Journal of Personality
and Social Psychology, I've only a 50-50 chance of ascertaining the tone
of any e-mail message. The study also shows that people think they've
correctly interpreted the tone of e-mails they receive 90 percent of the
time.
"That's how flame wars get started," says psychologist Nicholas Epley of
the University of Chicago, who conducted the research with Justin Kruger
of New York University. "People in our study were convinced they've
accurately understood the tone of an e-mail message when in fact their
odds are no better than chance," says Epley."""
-- full article:
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70179-0.html
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