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often needed more than five seconds before beginning or continuing an account.","More than 96% of pauses followed by event information fell within a ten-second window.","A bounded wait-time rule was implementable, though interviewers described ten seconds as unnatural and the setting was dyadic child interviewing rather than public deliberation."]},{"source_id":"SRC3","title":"Gender Inequality in Deliberation: Unpacking the Black Box of Interaction","url":"https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/abs/gender-inequality-in-deliberation-unpacking-the-black-box-of-interaction/7C72D50D31CEC1330B58F0BDA4F9084B","publisher":"Perspectives on Politics / Cambridge University Press","date_or_year":"2014","source_type":"PRIMARY_RESEARCH","language":"English","claims_supported":["A large randomized deliberation experiment linked individual speech behavior with perceived speaker authority.","Decision rules and group composition affected interruption patterns and 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Announce that the interval is optional thinking time and never consent; make the cue perceivable through relevant access modes; retain interpreters, chat or cards, written and later submissions, and immediate clarification on request. Blind coders to condition where feasible and prespecify facilitator-restart latency, attempted and abandoned starts, overlaps, participant speaking-share concentration, unique relevant contributions, comprehension, confidential opportunity and coercion reports, completion time, and stop events. Treat feasibility and participant interpretation as co-primary with contribution distribution.","world_novelty_boundary":"This bounded public-web search establishes substantial adjacent prior art and leaves a context-specific incremental evaluation claim. It cannot establish world novelty, patentability, freedom to operate, routine prevalence across all consultation systems, market size, or realized impact."}