I don't understand what you see in this technology. It doesn't take a genius — or a computer for that matter — to figure out that the post was emotionally tone

I don't understand what you see in this technology. It doesn't take a genius — or a computer for that matter — to figure out that the post was emotionally tone deaf. The axes used by EffectCheck don't make sense to me. For example, can a post simultaneously score highly in "anxiety" and "confidence"? Aren't these opposites? As a designer and programmer — Don Norman's newest article for Core77[1] got me thinking about this — I am a bit quick to roll my eyes when I see the powerful visuals ("Oh, a chart!") deployed to trivial ends (a relatively simple Bayesian classifier?), and EffectCheck has the hallmarks of something as unsophisticated as ELIZA[2] or the Myers-Briggs personality test. [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2679720 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2679720 [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA