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iansimon on Oct 25, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Startup School 2012 Videos

Where does that number come from? It sounds suspiciously made up -- not by you, mind you.

kami8845 on Oct 25, 2012 [–]

wikipedia - body language

iansimon on Oct 26, 2012 | [–]

It looks like the original study dealt only with "communication of feelings and attitudes" i.e. emotional content:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Mehrabian#Misinterpretat...

I don't see any evidence that this applies to communication in general.

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