BlaBlaMeter detects how much bullshit is in your text • Hacker News Board

Re: BlaBlaMeter detects how much bullshit is in your text

#101

Post by 001sky » Thu, Aug 30, 2012, 6:48 PM UTC

How did Reddit's AMA do? NOT BAD!

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4451328 - full text http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4451586 - summary text

  4. Small-Business tax breaks - [major bullshit] 0.5 [a]
  1. Space Race - [PR level bullshit] 0.33
  7. Money in Politics - [Some bullshit] 0.28
  2. Internet Freedom - [some bullshit] 0.23
  10. Work/Life Balance - [little bullshit] 0.16
  9. Jobs / recent grads - [little bullshit] 0.16
  6. Most Difficult Decision/afghanistan - [No Bullshit] 0.07

  [Un-analyzable]

  3. Favorite Basketball Player - too short
  8. White House Beer Recipe - too short
  5. First Activity on Nov 7 - too short

 [a]"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

#102

Post by haeikou » Thu, Aug 30, 2012, 6:49 PM UTC

arielweisberg wrote: post #100

haeikou wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

* What's a good BlaBla Meter result? High-quality journalistic texts are usually in the range of 0.1 and 0.3 * Are there any texts with an indexof 0.0? This is rare, but occurs. Too low of an index is rather suspicious though, and might also indicate stilistical deficits. * What is the highest index value? Thile the BlaBla Meter was designed for index values between 0 and 1, but in rare cases the scale can be exceede…

One of my blog posts got a .16 so you have my seal of approval ;-)

I am not involved with them by any means.

Yeah, personally I also score around .16 to .18 on my internet texts. Long papers get around 0.2, so I'm probably losing momentum after the fourth page :-/

Re: BlaBlaMeter detects how much bullshit is in your text

#103

Post by brittohalloran » Fri, Aug 31, 2012, 1:11 PM UTC

freehunter wrote: post #89

dimasg wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That snippet scores 0.26

I copied that text into the meter, got the .26 you saw. I then listened in to a conversation at the cube next to mine and wrote that in. "Using software as a service we can replicate and evergreen in the cloud." One simple sentence jumped it to a .35.

YES. Someone needs to make a voice-to-text app that has a "bullshit meter" needle, and that beeps rapidly (a la PKE meter) when a threshold is exceeded.

http://www.gbfans.com/equipment/pke-meter/

Re: BlaBlaMeter detects how much bullshit is in your text

#104

Post by jschulenklopper » Sat, Sep 01, 2012, 12:58 PM UTC

mdlthree wrote: post #68

I tried past cover letters for jobs and they all scored in the 0.5-0.6 range. This makes sense since I AM trying to sell myself in an honest but tailored way. Does this reveal a flaw in my writing style or in the purpose of cover letters in the hiring process? Is it even possible for a cover letter to score low on a bullshit scale?

Just tried to same with a recent cover letter, scoring 0.44. I wouldn't worry, although you (and me) can always try to bring it to a more down-to-earth level, making text easier and more pleasant to read. Unfortunately, a job application isn't the right domain for some scientific analysis on correlation between bullshit-measurements and interview invitations, if you're really interested in the job :-)