Obamas AMA answers came out between 0.10 and 0.30! http://www.reddit.com/user/PresidentObama
That's the first thing I've checked, I'm a little disappointed.
BlaBlaMeter detects how much bullshit is in your text
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#22It would be much better if it could highlight bullshit sections.
It would be even better if it replaced the bullshit sections with "bla bla".
Re: BlaBlaMeter detects how much bullshit is in your text
#23Obamas AMA answers came out between 0.10 and 0.30! http://www.reddit.com/user/PresidentObama
Holy Cr*p - The President actually did an AMA.
I cannot imagine our Prime Minister replying to an email.
Edit: oh its happening today - I thought it was old news and no-one had told me. Apologies for the exclamation marks now gone.
Re: BlaBlaMeter detects how much bullshit is in your text
#24I just pasted some text from a random TechCrunch article relating to Spotify and got this:
Your text: 847 characters, 145 words Bullshit Index :0.56 Something's fishy. Obviously you want to sell something, or you're trying to impress somebody. Are you sure that you have a real message, and if so: who would understand it?
Re: BlaBlaMeter detects how much bullshit is in your text
#25The main reason I posted was in the hope of triggering discussion over the method used to analyse the text. I've seen users getting a lower score simply by separating out a block of text into numbered paragraphs which would seem to point to quite a simplistic method. http://ipdraughts.wordpress.com/2012/08/25/cutting-down-on-t...
I'll withstand my statement: model based on a corpus of PR, scholar, licenses and the like texts.
If they are into real statistical NLP.
Or just esthetic rules + word dictionary.
Re: BlaBlaMeter detects how much bullshit is in your text
#26Any chance of an overview of the algorithm you're using to filter out the text? My thinking is you are measuring word count versus commonly used marketing or political jargon count, but that's probably too simple.
Most unusual... "Politics are great, come buy our new, brand spanking awesome banana phone, apple, steve jobs, cripplingly epic banana phone. Just great phones, with bananas, no apples to be found here. Samsung can suck on our banana phone. Android is better than iOS." "Your text: 251 characters, 43 words Bullshit Index :0.03 Your text shows no or marginal indications of 'bullshit'-English."
You wrote a lot of bullshit but your text looks pretty normal from a vocabulary standard. looking a bit more to the website you'll see that what it calls bullshit english is that pattern often used in scientific articles or law texts (and president speeches) where they seem to be saying a lot of really wow stuff but all you're really left in the end as a big "?" cause you couldn't get half of what the person said.
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#27"english text up to 15.000 characters (overhead will be cut off)", did I read it as 15 characters ? Bullshit
Re: BlaBlaMeter detects how much bullshit is in your text
#28I just pasted some text from a random TechCrunch article relating to Spotify and got this: Your text: 847 characters, 145 words Bullshit Index :0.56 Something's fishy. Obviously you want to sell something, or you're trying to impress somebody. Are you sure that you have a real message, and if so: who would understand it?
Apparently you're not the only one to try TechCrunch first - I did exactly the same thing after clicking the link.
It appears our internal bullshit meters work just fine as well :)
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#29Random articles:
TechCrunch: 0.42 ("Amazon Wants Everyone To Know The Kindle Fire Is Sold Out")
Paul Ryan's RNC speech: 0.14
NYTimes: 0.11 ("Storm’s Winds Slow as It Exits Southern Louisiana")
Re: BlaBlaMeter detects how much bullshit is in your text
#30I just pasted some text from a random TechCrunch article relating to Spotify and got this: Your text: 847 characters, 145 words Bullshit Index :0.56 Something's fishy. Obviously you want to sell something, or you're trying to impress somebody. Are you sure that you have a real message, and if so: who would understand it?
Apparently you're not the only one to try TechCrunch first - I did exactly the same thing after clicking the link. It appears our internal bullshit meters work just fine as well :)
After that, I pasted in an excerpt from PandoDaily and it got a marginally higher score on the BS meter.