"poor listening" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to a lack of effective listening skills or the act of not paying attention or comprehending what is being said. Example: "John received a poor evaluation at work due to his poor listening skills during team meetings. He would often miss important details and ask questions that had already been answered by his colleagues."
Do any of these apply to you? Poor listening.
Yet it summarizes the mechanics that lie behind poor listening techniques.
Speakers in the poor listening condition talked with a student from the theatre department who was instructed to act distracted (e.g., by looking aside and playing with their smartphones).
Poor listening skills by sales personnel have been blamed for billions of dollars in lost revenue for businesses each year.
There are times when our public discourse seems to have become one of hypersensitivity and discourtesy, ham-fistedly combined, of reaction, stridency and paranoia - a kind of expression of poor listening.
Acclaimed social entrepreneur Jacqueline Novogratz said in her organization Acumen's manifesto for change that "It starts by standing with the poor, listening to voices unheard".
Nor is it a respecter of persons: "The genius and the fool, the wealthy and the poor listen simultaneously … there is no first and third class".
There is a paternalist streak in liberalism that is more comfortable in providing for the poor than listening to and empowering them, which is not only morally wrong but strategically self-defeating.
The extent to which the digital age has produced an abundance of music, but a poor music listening experience has been widely noted.
It was also evident that ANC visits among poor women listening to radio at least once a week was 10% (CI = 1.83 3.28) higher than those who did not listen to radio at all.
Radio been one of the dominant mediums of mass media communication in Ghana was realised to have higher inclination toward ANC utilisation as poor women listening to radio at least once a week were 10% higher to utilise ANC than their counterparts who do not listen at all.
