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AJ Heil
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8:00 AM
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A psychiatrist working at Yale University, George Mahl, counted and examined ten speech disfluencies (including the infamous "uh" and "um") with the purpose of measuring a person's anxiety level. He calculated that, on average, during every 4.4 seconds of spontaneous speech, one disfluency occurs in a person's speaking. (Source)
