Moneypenny <\/a>that surveyed 1,001 Texans. About 14% of respondents from San Antonio said they conclude calls with \u201csee\u00a0ya later,\u201d compared to more than a fifth of Austinites, among whom it was the most popular farewell.<\/p>\nThe study did not clarify whether it determined differences between cities based on survey respondents’ current residence or where they grew up.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The study found that almost 90%\u00a0of respondents said they answer calls from unknown numbers. That surprised those who conducted the study, according to Eric\u00a0Schurke, CEO North America at Moneypenny.<\/p>\n
Schurke added that it\u2019s \u201cinteresting\u201d that the most common greetings and farewells across the board are \u201chello\u201d and \u201cbye.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt turns out that the way people answer and hang up is fairly conventional, which is comforting when it feels everything else around us is constantly changing,\u201d Schurke said. \u201cGiven how people behave in movies, we half expected everyone to say they just hung up when they were done, but they still feel the need to say their goodbyes.\u201d<\/p>\n
More than two-thirds of study participants said they answer \u201chello,\u201d while at least 10% used other more informal responses such as \u201cwhat\u2019s up,\u201d \u201cgood morning\/afternoon,\u201d and \u201chey.\u201d Women are more likely to greet callers with \u201chello,\u201d while men are twice as likely as women to say \u201cwhat\u2019s up,\u201d according to the study.<\/p>\n
When ending a call, almost half of respondents said they use a simple \u201cbye,\u201d while other leading options were \u201ctalk to you later\u201d and a more formal \u201cgoodbye.\u201d More than a third of callers from Houston and Dallas-Fort Worth end a call with \u201ctalk to you later,\u201d the\u00a0study found.<\/p>\n
Slightly more than half of the respondents said they oppose an artificial intelligence caller adopting a regional accent, according to Schurke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texans answer and hang up phone calls differently, depending on which city they\u2019re from, according to a new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-476528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}