If your mic sucks on a conference call then everyone judges you.
In our deepest hearts we all know this is true but now its confirmed by science.
The results wont shock you.
Using microphone and earphones with video conference on laptop for work from home.© mhong84 via Shutterstock
So he decided to study the bias.
The researchers ran six different experiments.
Participants would listen to a short speech and make judgments about the speaker based on what theyd heard.
The scientists varied the gender and accent (it was either British or American) across the experiments.
In another, people listened to a dating profile.
Those perceptions cut across gender and accent.
Such effects may become more relevant as daily communication via videoconferencing becomes increasingly widespread.
Scholl also noted how hard a problem this was to catch and correct.
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