2 ms·

I'm sure you've measured this.

• coldtea 4y ago
  I'm sure you know that one of the uses of intelligence is the ability to estimate things without measuring them - based on your actual experience and the quality of the model of the world that you have. Thankfully we can use it to know how to e.g. tie our shoes (without having formally studied knots), or to be able to tell intuitively that most people can't understand Quantum Mechanics, even if we haven't measured it. You are however welcome to do some statistics with actual samples of talking to people and having them show their skills at scansion, and prove my estimation wrong. Heck, I'm willing to bet less than 1 in 100 Americans is able to even define what "iambic pentameter" is. Feel free to prove me wrong on that one too. Except if your concern is the measurability of the skill: whether it's 100x and not just 10x or maybe just 8.345x better. In which case you've missed the point of using it as a stand-in for "much better".
  • topaz0 4y ago
    Just as we can tie our shoes without studying knots, many people can feel iambic pentameter without having any idea what the term means. Many can't, too, or can but only vaguely. Still, those people are still on par with chatgpt when it comes to scansion. I think you'd be hard-pressed to find anybody with a worse sense of meter, let alone 100x worse (again, without knowing any of the terminology etc.)