The game is rigged but there are techniques for mitigating the issues. Besides having a pet 600 lb gorilla, current and evolving technology can and will mitigate the more blantent problems.
For example, while "deep voice wins", it turns out that telephony and electronic intermediated communication optimizes bandwidth by compressing the audio spretrum. Very high tones and very low tones are not transmited with as much fidelity as mid-tones. What this means is that there really isn't a "deep voice" nearly as much! The playing field is leveled in teleconferences.
In this book, I'll look at some of the issues that rig the game and how technology can mitigate them.
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