Interviews are like everyday conversations: messy, complex, often containing contradictions and statements that are made off the top of one's head, with people shifting topics and getting lost in details, losing the line of their argument, not finding the exact words for what they wish to say, and with silences, hesitations, pauses. Recording devices often have a 'voice activation' tool; if you switch it on it will only record when there is an audible voice.

Never ever switch that thing on. If you do, you would lose that crucial part of conversations which we call silence. Silences are not an absence of speech, they are the production of silence, they are very much part of speech. We produce silence when we need to think, when we hesitate (i.e. when we find something sensitive, controversial, or emotional), when we do not wish to say something.

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As much as IEM's stressful, I feel like it's the module I can relate the most to.