Researcher: Overhearing only one side of a cell-phone conversation diverts listeners' attention from whatever they are doing. ███████ ████ ████ ██ █ ████████████ ██████ █████████ ██████████ ██████ ██ █████ ████ ███ ███████ ██████ ███ ████ █████ ██████████ █████████ ██ ████ ████████ ███████ ██████████ ███████ █████ ██████████ ███████
The researcher says that hearing only one person in a conversation makes listeners constantly try to guess what the unheard person is saying. This makes it distracting to overhear one side of a cell-phone conversation. Cell-phone conversations are also distracting because people talking on a cell-phone are abnormally loud.
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This answer is unsupported. We don’t know whether actually having a cell-phone conversation is distracting. The researcher only discusses the effects of overhearing someone else's conversation.
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This answer is strongly supported. Hearing only one side of a conversation distracts a person from whatever they’re doing, as does the abnormally loud speech of someone talking on a cell-phone. Being distracted reasonably detracts from someone's driving.
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This answer is anti-supported. The researcher says that overhearing just one side of a conversation is distracting. This is presumably true of traditional phones as well as cell-phones.
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This answer is unsupported. We don’t know if these people always lose track of their own thoughts, we just know that they become distracted.
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This answer is unsupported. We don’t know what the effects are of actually talking on a cell-phone, the researcher only discusses overhearing a cell-phone conversation.
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