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57 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 20 October 2007 11:49PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 22 October 2007 04:19:15AM 10 points [-]

Noumenon, one of the experiments (I think Keysar 1994) showed that, when people read in text that Mark left a voice message (that is, the experimental subjects themselves did not hear a spoken message, only read about Mark leaving one); or alternatively read in text that Mark left a written note; then they were equally likely to judge that June would identify sarcasm. In other words, the modality of text versus speech made no difference to their expectations.