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Publication details [#31433]
Sperber, Dan, Jean-Baptiste van der Henst and Laure Carles. 2002. Truthfulness and Relevance in Telling The Time. Mind & Language 17 (5) : 457. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Blackwell Publishers
ISBN
0268-1064
Journal WWW
Annotation
This article shows that rounding an answer is often a way of optimizing relevance. Three experiments support the view that in verbal communication, relevance is more important than strict truthfulness.