Which term is commonly described as a barrier to effective communication due to misinterpretation or technology issues?

• A. Information Overload
• B. Noise
• C. Internal Politics
• D. Minutes

Answer: (B)

Noise is the barrier to effective communication that covers misinterpretation and technology-related disruption. It includes things like semantic or psychological misreadings and problems in the communication channel, such as a poor connection or glitches that distort the message. Information overload points to having too much data to process, internal politics to organizational dynamics, and minutes to a written record of what happened—not barriers of the transmission itself. So the best fit for a barrier caused by misinterpretation or technology issues is noise.