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Why is it that public speakers are often advised to slow down, but the average podcast listener speeds up?
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Jason Crawford
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Lots of people saying you can rewind a podcast if needed. I doubt this is it. I listen to podcasts at 1.25x or more and I almost never rewind
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Jason Crawford
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I could believe it's a difference between conversation and prepared remarks. But some podcasts are scripted and I speed those up too.
Maybe it's just outdated or bad advice: twitter.com/patrickc/statu… twitter.com/patrickc/statu…
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Ivan Kirigin
@ikirigin
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Average? I presume folks that 2X are not average
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Jason Crawford
@jasoncrawford
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> 1x seems common. I do 1.25 to 1.5
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Patrick Collison
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Yes! I consider this advice officially falsified by experiment and have allowed myself to speed up over the years. (In practice, I suspect that clear elocution is the limiting factor.)
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David Laing
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My guess: the average public speaker is nervous and rambly, so slowing down improves coherence, while the average podcast speaker is already coherent, so speeding up improves throughput.
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@drethelin
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Yeah there's a very big difference between skilled speakers being sped up and unskilled speakers talking so fast they're incomprehensible.
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Public speakers slow down to maximize *their* impact on the listener.
The listener speeds up the podcast to maximize the amount of information they consume. Because they can.
And, the average informal podcast has more filler than a talk or lecture manicured from notes.
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Simon Sarris
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Is the average podcast listener listening?
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