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Assuming an absence of capital letters, the very hardest part has to be in ignoring personal bias enough that one can objectively determine which side is more h
by bmelton 12y ago
Assuming an absence of capital letters, the very hardest part has to be in ignoring personal bias enough that one can objectively determine which side is more hysterical.
On any of the hot button issues the proponents and opponents both view themselves as perfectly logical, and their opposites as being hysterical, with very, very few people in the middle who may have an opinion, but are legitimately able to see both sides of things.
- burkaman 12y agoThat's why this algorithmic approach is actually a kind of interesting idea. Obviously the all-caps technique is too simplistic, but it would be interesting to try and give political opinions a hysterical rating based on the vocabulary used. Obviously it wouldn't be a foolproof method; it's hard to talk about the consequences of global warming or NSA overreach without scoring pretty high in hystericalness, but it would still be a neat tool.