Writers, too, and folks with social anxiety. Two classes of people who think very carefully to every little word they use and the subtle tonal effects and inter

Writers, too, and folks with social anxiety. Two classes of people who think very carefully to every little word they use and the subtle tonal effects and interactions of the tiniest details. I suppose this article is more about listening/reading than speaking/writing, but I reckon most people would easily be able to notice a difference between the example professor and student messages, and put it down on first thoughts to formality. And we certainly notice when people communicate with a level of formality that greatly differs from what we expect from them. The article says that this might be used for contentious stuff like being able to tell if people are lying, detecting their gender, or economic status. I have my doubts to be honest, and fear the consequences of applying this stuff naively. I suppose if their results check out... but the article doesn't go into that, instead saying the "most interesting work" is about power dynamics. Well that to me is the bleedin' obvious part. Anyway yes, when I reached that categorical 'puny humans' put down I rolled my eyes and started to scan the rest.