What Did Nowak (2003) Discover Regarding People's Ability to Predict

question 21

Multiple Choice

What did Nowak (2003) discover regarding people's ability to predict whether interaction partners were male or female based on written text alone?

• A) Female participants could accurately predict their partners' sex but not male participants.
• B) Participants accurately predicted the sex of the texts' author, but only when communication was synchronous.
• C) Participants predicted with 80% accuracy whether the text was written by a male or female.
• D) Participants were no better than chance at guessing whether the text was written by a male or female.

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