Study: 50% Chance You'll Misunderstand a Text-Based Internet Message

Study shows that even though the sender will expect you to understand their tone and meaning 80% of the time, you'll really only understand them about 50% of the time. This is because "people aren't that good at imagining how a message might be understood from another person's perspective."

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