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I don't mean to come across as hostile or undermine the effort that's been invested, but I can't help but be a tad skeptical about these visualizations, especia
by noelsequeira 15y ago
I don't mean to come across as hostile or undermine the effort that's been invested, but I can't help but be a tad skeptical about these visualizations, especially given the fact that the author (in what might be construed as cavalier fashion) presents seemingly nebulous metrics like they are absolute matter-of-fact ("Anxiety/Confidence Ratio", "Hostility/Compassion Ratio", "Depression/Happiness Ratio").
It would certainly help if the algorithm used to compute these metrics were shared and dissected. I tend to believe that sentiment analysis is much more art than science, given how tricky and profound context can be.
To conclude, I'm not going to end this comment on a negative note. I'd much rather reserve my vitriol and caustic criticism for another thread and day and abstain from calling this an attempt at gaming HN to promote a startup.
I do this not out of a lack of indignation towards what I've just read, but because I'd like to end this seemingly hateful comment on a note that isn't bitter or negative but is instead quite the opposite (without using a single word that would help the OP's algorithm figure this out).
And with that, I throw down the gauntlet. Analyze this!
- tansey 15y ago>And with that, I throw down the gauntlet. Analyze this! Sure. Scored with EffectCheck: Anxiety - Very High Hostility - High Depression - Very High Confidence - Low Compassion - Low Happiness - Very Low I will post a longer explanation detailing how/why it works, since others have had this question as well.
- michaeldhopkins 15y agoThis is excellent. Would you be willing to check this text from my blog please? "It's said that great military commanders, chess players and Go players feel physical pressure on their stomachs when their game pieces are threatened, and the pressure indicates the moves to make. This full-body thinking communicates much more rapidly than purely deductive mental reasoning. The intuition is the result of thousands of prior episodes where such reasoning was employed, acted on and the outcome experienced in all its pain or glory. Other than hours of practicing the game, or whatever one does, the only other way to improve the chance of learning this physical intuition is to be sure one's body is not sending conflicting signals. Please eat well and exercise."
- tansey 15y agoSure. Here you go: Anxiety - High Hostility - High Depression - High Confidence - Medium Compassion - Very Low to Low Happiness - Low to Medium
- michaeldhopkins 15y agoHaha, thanks. Looking forward to an explanation of this.
- sfk 15y agoI'm not sure that I understand. You have just demonstrated that the algorithm does not work.
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- waterlesscloud 15y agoI'd argue that it worked perfectly, actually. What were the poster's true motivations? Not what they stated, but what they truly meant.
- ma2rten 15y agoDepends if you actually ment what your wrote. I think his point is that if you did, you would have chosen a different wording from a psychological point of view.
- recoiledsnake 15y agoWhat this kind of analysis needs is a blind test. Ask three groups to rate text independently in the same metrics - 1) General public. 2) Psychologists 3) Algorithm. The results should be interesting. However, if the authors claim subliminal effects, then I do not how that could be tested.
- hack_edu 15y agoWhats your model for folks who have proven mental health issues? I have little faith that a clinically depressed, or worse, person would fit the same profile. And there's got to be enough folks with mental health problems to destroy your margin of error, this is the lonely internet afterall.