Researchers analyzing speech patterns in workplaces found that women were interrupted in meetings significantly more often than men, even when the women held more senior positions. When the same speakers participated in meetings via voice modulation that disguised gender, interruption rates were nearly equal. Participants who interrupted most frequently in unmodified meetings expressed surprise when shown the recordings.
Which inference is most strongly supported by the passage?
- A
Voice modulation is the only effective remedy for unequal participation
- B
Senior position fully protects speakers from being interrupted
- C
Workplace interruption patterns reflect deliberate strategies acknowledged by participants
- Dcheck_circle
Some patterns of conversational behavior may operate without participants' full awareness
Explanation
Surprise at recordings and disappearance of pattern under disguise supports B. A contradicts the surprise; C and D contradict findings.