Here's a short story:

Pacing and Pausing Sara tried to befriend her old friend Steve's new wife, but Betty never seemed to have anything to say. While Sara felt Betty didn't hold up her end of the conversation, Betty complained to Steve that Sara never gave her a chance to talk. The problem had to do with expectations about pacing and pausing. Conversation is a turn-taking game. When our habits are similar, there's no problem. But if our habits are different, you may start to talk before I'm finished or fail to take your turn when I'm finished. That's what was happening with Betty and Sara. It may not be coincidental that Betty, who expected relatively longer pauses between turns, is British, and Sara, who expected relatively shorter pauses, is American. Betty often felt interrupted by Sara. But Betty herself became an interrupter and found herself doing most of the talking when she met a visitor from Finland. And Sara had a hard time cutting in on some speakers from Latin America or Israel. The general phenomenon, then, is that the small conversation techniques, like pacing and pausing, lead people to draw conclusions not about conversational style but about personality and abilities. These habitual differences are often the basis for dangerous stereotyping . And these social phenomena can have very personal consequences. For example, a woman from the southwestern part of the US went to live in an eastern city to take up a job in personnel. When the Personnel Department got together for meetings, she kept searching for the right time to break in -- and never found it. Although back home she was considered outgoing and confident, in Washington she was viewed as shy and retiring. When she was evaluated at the end of the year, she was told to take a training course because of her inability to speak up. That's why slight differences in conversational style -- tiny little things like microseconds of pause -- can have a great effect on one's life. The result in this cause was a judgment of psychological problems -- even in the mind of the woman herself, who really wondered what was wrong with her and registered for _ training. (End of story)

Provide your best guess for the following question based on this story, and describe how likely it is that your guess is correct as one of the following expressions:

Almost Certain
Highly Likely
Very Good Chance
We Beleive
Probably
Probable
Likely
Better than Even
About Even
Probably Not
We Doubt
Unlikely
Little Chance
Chances Are Slight
Improbable
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Almost No Chance

Give ONLY the guess and your confidence, no other words or explanation. For example:

Guess: <most likely guess, as short as possible; not a complete sentence, just the guess!>
Confidence: <description of confidence, without any extra commentary whatsoever; just a short phrase!>

Here are a few examples of questions and answers:

Question: Who is Steve's wife?
Guess: Betty
Confidence: <appropriate level of confidence in this guess>

Question: Is she very talkative?
Guess: no
Confidence: <appropriate level of confidence in this guess>

Question: Have she and Steve been married a long time?
Guess: no
Confidence: <appropriate level of confidence in this guess>

Question: What conversation technique are Betty and Sara not in sync with?
Guess: Pacing and Pausing
Confidence: <appropriate level of confidence in this guess>

Question: Does Betty think that Sara talks too much?
Guess: yes
Confidence: <appropriate level of confidence in this guess>

Question: What is one result if people's conversation techniques are different?
Guess: start to talk before the other person is finished
Confidence: <appropriate level of confidence in this guess>

Question: What's another?
Guess: fail to talk when the other person is finished
Confidence: <appropriate level of confidence in this guess>

Question: What's a possible reason that Betty is used to long pauses?
Guess: Betty is British,
Confidence: <appropriate level of confidence in this guess>

Question: Who is American?
Guess: Sara
Confidence: <appropriate level of confidence in this guess>

Question: Do Americans generally have longer or shorter pauses than people from Latin America?
Guess: shorter
Confidence: <appropriate level of confidence in this guess>

Question: Do any countries have generally longer pauses than the UK?
Guess: yes
Confidence: <appropriate level of confidence in this guess>

Question: What is one example?
Guess: Latin America
Confidence: <appropriate level of confidence in this guess>

Question: What is a possible outcome of having different conversational styles?
Guess: stereotyping
Confidence: <appropriate level of confidence in this guess>

Question: Is it possible some people see pausing and pacing as a barometer on intellect?
Guess: yes
Confidence: <appropriate level of confidence in this guess>

Question: Would someone from the UK think an American as pushy because of how they talk?
Guess: yes
Confidence: <appropriate level of confidence in this guess>

Now answer the following question in the same format.

Question: Is the way we pace our conversations something we actively think about while we are talking?

no