mattnewport comments on Open Thread, September, 2010-- part 2 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: mattnewport 25 September 2010 01:14:31AM 5 points [-]

In engineering / software circles, wearing a T-shirt rather than a suit is a kind of countersignaling.

Comment author: komponisto 25 September 2010 01:25:57AM 2 points [-]

Indeed; and no doubt linguistic countersignaling also occurs in some communities. (Example: politicians.)