Which would you consider more believable? Text, or voice?
Text - It's a book; people lie so easily. Why would they publish something that's full of lies?
Voice - It's a human; books are full of fictional stories. Why would a human being go out of their way to tell me a lie when it would just come back to bite them?
Hypothetical situation: Meet a person you've never seen before and listen to them about a subject you've never heard of before. Pick up a book open to a random page, you didn't see the cover, talking about a subject you've never heard of before.
Which is more believable?
(add on ,but sounds non-fiction., if your beef is with 'well it's a book, could be fiction'.)
(I put unknown and non-fiction because of preconceived notions, you know, situational and all that jazz)
Text and in the recent decade text messages most especially, are the easiest way to fake something. You can't hear any pauses or changes in tone of voice. With a text message you can always take your time and make up the next response and then give an "I was talking to someone-type excuse" for the delay in sending your message. There are ways to tell if a text is authentic (genuine) or not but it never seems 100 percent accurate.
Voice and especially by phone, is the next step up. It's harder to lie by phone than text. You can hear changes in the voice, pauses in conversation, and the person who is trying to get away with a lie will have to think on their feet when confronted with something. They don't have all day to make up an excuse like in a text.
In person the hardest way to lie. You can look at the other persons face. Pauses in conversation, changes in voice, turning head away from the other person, and shifting your eyes away when lying. It's most difficult to lie in person, especially if both parties involved know each other.
However, books usually have some kind of research behind them. If your friend tells you something, he might've in turn heard it from an unreliable source. Even if you trust your friend, and he doesn't lie, he might have been lied to before he passed the information on to you.
So, I think it's easier to lie in text, but I also think that if the author is trying to tell the truth, the information is more likely to be correct in text.
Erm...I don't think that he was talking about text messages Reton...
Anyway, I'd say text is more believable. They have people edit most books, so its less likely to be incorrect. Although I dislike when the author throws in his personal opinion.
Erm...I don't think that he was talking about text messages Reton...
Yes text. But text messages are text none the less. Like iMogwai said,
However, books usually have some kind of research behind them.
But a book could have faulty sources. Or a book could be made by a group of people and researches to purposely be false and or misleading. Almost anyone can publish a book.
