How Powerful is Persuasion? (Hillary Voice Science Experiment)

Scott Adams' Blog ^ | April 21, 2016 | Scott Adams

[PJ-Comix]

I have been writing about Donald Trump’s powers of persuasion for months and yet many of my readers are still persuasion doubters. I get that. We like to think of ourselves as creatures of reason.

But we are not creatures of reason. We aren’t even close. Science has known this for a long time.

For example, here’s a story about an experiment that changed men’s votes (from Clinton to Trump) just by priming the men with a gender-related question. The effect was dramatic and immediate.

[PJ-Comix]

Here’s a little experiment to try at home. Record one of Hillary Clinton’s televised rally speeches and put it on TV with volume high (but not too high) when you expect a female friend or relative to knock on the door. Answer the door and say nothing about the television in the background. Then watch the expression on the face of your guest. Two-out-of-three times you will see a pained grimace. For many people – male and female – listening to Clinton’s speeches actually hurts.

[IronJack]

Couple hearing her voice with seeing that withered prune of a sour face and you have the makings of a nightmare.

[raybbr]

How is a loud, high pitched monotonous drone NOT persuasive?

[PJ-Comix]

Her voice sounds worse than ever nowadays due to goiter and coughing fits.

[Westbrook]

Her voice sounds like shattering glass in slow motion.

Hideous.

Like her face.

[The_Media_never_lie]

The next time I hear some lady say “l am voting for Hillary because she is a woman, and women should support women”, here is what I would like to say: Anti freeze looks like Gatorade, but that doesn’t mean you should drink it.

[Olog-hai]

But we are not creatures of reason. We aren’t even close. Science has known this for a long time …

Liberals are taught to eschew reason for emotion. And if one cannot reason, how can one tell what reason is?

[winner3000]

Unfortunately Obama has the right voice. To the extent I can’t stand it, it’s only because I educated myself enough to realize that voice is lying.

Ted Cruz has a challenge with his voice, but not nearly as much as screachy Hillary. I don’t know what he can do about it.

[baltimorepoet]

After listening to Hillary speak, I listen to an audio file of fingernails scraping a chalkboard and Rick Astley’s Never Gonna Give You Up.

[RipSawyer]

Maybe I should run for president, people have been complimenting me on my voice for as long as I can recall. I have a deep baritone which can drop to bass at times. I have done telephone sales of medical equipment and I have had women keep me on the line for long periods and then finally say that they really don’t need anything they just wanted to hear that voice.

[Ohioan]

The writer is dancing around the importance of instinctive recognition of real factors not easily explained verbally. Consider my suggested approach to an effective Trump campaign for this year.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3422096/posts

[Jamestown1630]

LOL! My husband works on the telephone a lot, and the women tell him similar things.

He’d hate the whole running-for-and-becoming-President thing, though ;-)

-JT

[TomGuy]

Just prior to the AIPAC, Hillary apparently had a voice coach who instructed her to talk slowly, in phrases, grandmotherly.

From her, even that was painful to listen to because she sounded condescending.

It didn’t last. On the evening of the next Dem primary, she was back to her angry, shrill, screeching voice.

Across the aisle, Ted Cruz has a similar problem with his preachy, cadenced manner of speaking.

[Vince Ferrer]

Trump needs to feature her voice in ads. Hillary will try to downplay her voice in ads, but Trump should play it up

[RockyTx]

Vince....
that is exactly right.

Republicans need to play ads featuring Hillary’s voice.

Hillary, the more you see and hear,
the less you like.