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To: freespirited

B.S.

Airplane cockpit voice warning systems emply afemale voice by default (presuming a male pilot/crew) because in tense, information rich, multi-threading situations ...

a man hears the FEMALE voice better, cognitively.

PULL UP! TERRAIN TERRAIN TERRAIN!

“Yes Dear” is the right response.

But...

“Yesterday I was having lunch with Sherry, yo know she’s the one who has the three kids in swimming over at the shopping center where the goat was fouend a’flsdd sjlkn jknc s;lcjs;jklnslnjn ............”

Does not RETAIN attention, because it is quickly processed as irrelevant.

Attention fades because content did not generate INTEREST.

It’s not that men don’t listen, it’s that women presume they can communicate on their terms and have a man pay rapt attention.


49 posted on 07/13/2011 9:57:44 AM PDT by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur: non vehere est inermus)
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To: Blueflag

“It’s not that men don’t listen, it’s that women presume they can communicate on their terms and have a man pay rapt attention.”


241 posted on 07/13/2011 2:29:26 PM PDT by Immerito (Reading Through the Bible in 90 Days)
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To: Blueflag

“It’s not that men don’t listen, it’s that women presume they can communicate on their terms and have a man pay rapt attention.”

Well put.


242 posted on 07/13/2011 2:34:54 PM PDT by Immerito (Reading Through the Bible in 90 Days)
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