Vagabond is completely right on this one. I have to know all about this kind of stuff for my job.
Communication is about 70% body language, 20% tone of voice and 10% actual words.
(IHateSprouts is baking a huge pie shaped like an enormous pie, Tue 3 Jun 2014, 18:23, 2 replies)

you work in the 'gullible hippy bollocks' department?

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Tue 3 Jun 2014, 18:36, closed)

No, I work with people with mental health issues and learning difficulties
Proper ones, that is
(IHateSprouts is baking a huge pie shaped like an enormous pie, Tue 3 Jun 2014, 18:55, closed)

seriously? they let people who by into that pseudo-scientific wank work with people with learning difficulties? they'll never fucking learn at that rate

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Tue 3 Jun 2014, 19:25, closed)

Don't forget colour and light therapy, oh and the real money spinner - drugs

( d.r._and_quinch when will you be famous?, Tue 3 Jun 2014, 19:49, closed)

Homeopathy isn't drugs, silly.
It's Crystals that's drugs.
( stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Tue 3 Jun 2014, 22:20, closed)

terrible homeophobia

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Tue 3 Jun 2014, 22:33, closed)

I quite like the Iliad

( d.r._and_quinch when will you be famous?, Wed 4 Jun 2014, 8:37, closed)

To be fair, if your learning difficulties are so severe that you cannot really talk properly,
then body language is pretty much all you've got.
(eViLegion Chief Commissioner of the Scottish Lunacy Board, Wed 4 Jun 2014, 11:05, closed)

Prove it then.

( d.r._and_quinch when will you be famous?, Tue 3 Jun 2014, 19:51, closed)

I'm not going to try to turn something qualitative into something quantitative
But consider how likely it is you'll be misinterpreted typing on the internet, then how comparatively less likely you'll be misinterpreted talking on the phone, then how vastly less likely it is that you'll be misinterpreted talking face to face.
(Eukanuba, Tue 3 Jun 2014, 22:08, closed)

nobody is suggesting that there is no non-verbal component to communication
but the 10% words claim is utter fucking twaddle. even the hippy psychologist who did the original experiments admits they've been misused by witless hippies and charlatans. the idea that those charlatans are working with vulnerable people is horrifying
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Tue 3 Jun 2014, 22:35, closed)

My point is that the vast majority of people who have a belief in body language and non-verbal
communication do not know how to interpret it, have no real knowledge of it and therefore reach incredibly bad decisions based on stupidity. The OP's short term boss being a case in point. Also, all 'negative' body language can be trained out of a person. Micro expressions never lie but that is a real subject.
( d.r._and_quinch when will you be famous?, Wed 4 Jun 2014, 8:35, closed)