The truth about 7% - 38% - 55% communication


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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/f41e8ce2-6700-4b68-9892-6fc29b299fd2/D975D4E4-659D-4FCF-BECD-7E7C3FD3B927/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://coachlisab.blogspot.com/2007/08/truth-about-7-38-55.html" href="http://coachlisab.blogspot.com/2007/08/truth-about-7-38-55.html" style="font-size: 11px;">coachlisab.blogspot.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://coachlisab.blogspot.com/2007/08/truth-about-7-38-55.html"><H3 class="post-title">
<A href="http://coachlisab.blogspot.com/2007/08/truth-about-7-38-55.html">The truth about 7% - 38% - 55%</A>
</H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://coachlisab.blogspot.com/2007/08/truth-about-7-38-55.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/coachlisab.blogspot.com/img/37D41560-936E-4E18-99E8-D063319D7B51" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://coachlisab.blogspot.com/2007/08/truth-about-7-38-55.html"><DIV>These statistics supposedly come from <A href="http://www.kaaj.com/psych/">Albert Mehrabian</A>'s book "Silent Messages: Implicit Communication of Emotions and Attitudes," a book about nonverbal communication and body language.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://coachlisab.blogspot.com/2007/08/truth-about-7-38-55.html"><DIV>However, Mehrabian's research is, most of the time, misunderstood and misinterpreted.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://coachlisab.blogspot.com/2007/08/truth-about-7-38-55.html"><DIV>"Please note that this and other equations regarding relative importance of verbal and nonverbal messages were derived from experiments dealing with communications of feelings and attitudes (i.e., like-dislike). Unless a communicator is talking about their feelings or attitudes, these equations are not applicable. Also see references 286 and 305 in Silent Messages -- these are the original sources of my findings."</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://coachlisab.blogspot.com/2007/08/truth-about-7-38-55.html"><DIV><A href="http://hodu.com/rule.shtml">Here's an article</A> by Dr. Judith E. Pearson, explaining in more detail how this research has been misused.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://coachlisab.blogspot.com/2007/08/truth-about-7-38-55.html">Using a story or statistic that is incorrect, just because everyone else uses it, is lazy. And unoriginal.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D975D4E4-659D-4FCF-BECD-7E7C3FD3B927/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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