I tried with Paul Ryan's speech at the RNC. Here's what it said: Your text: 15000 characters, 2645 words Bullshit Index :0.13 Your text shows only a few indications of 'bullshit'-English. Does that mean the algorithms work?
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Re: BlaBlaMeter detects how much bullshit is in your text
#62I got an astonishing 1.13 from http://www.oracle.com/uk/corporate/pricing/index.html :D
Heh, pasted in the benefits here:
http://www.oracle.com/us/products/applications/061863.html and got 1.26.
Re: BlaBlaMeter detects how much bullshit is in your text
#63I tried this on Paul Ryan's RNC address from last night, Barack Obama's innaugarel address, and a recent IEEE TKDE journal article. It gave bullshit measures of 0.15, 0.13 and 0.25, respectively. :-(
Re: BlaBlaMeter detects how much bullshit is in your text
#64Interesting to look at Privacy Policies in here. Google's policy had a slightly more bullshit leaning side than the average document.
Re: BlaBlaMeter detects how much bullshit is in your text
#65Any 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.
It is that simple. Looks like they assign a BS level to words, and then take some sort of average bullshit level amongst all words. Word order doesn't matter as slashcom says. For example, if you take the score from the Oracle Pricing blurb posted by BitMistro, and change 'strategies' to 'goals', you drop down to 0.8 or so. If you add an extra random 'strategy' somewhere, it bumps up to 1.4 or something. I actually s…
It should also be noted that on about 400 short texts (~300 words each), it did not correlate with the Flesh-Kinaid readability measure at all. So it's not measuring something like average word length or syllable counts.
But it's not QUITE a true lexicon, as it handles Out-Of-Vocabulary words quite strangely. If you use as input text:
"PR-Experts, politicians, ad writers or scientists need to be strong here! BlaBlaMeter unmasks without mercy how much bullshit hides in any text. A useful tool for everyone involved in writing! Simply copy your text into the white field and check your writing style. It works with english text up to 15.000 characters (overhead will be cut off). For a meaningful result we recommend a minimum length of 5 sentences."
Then you get 0.16. If you replace the last word 'sentences' with 'strategy' you go up to 0.44. However, if you change the last word to 'sentstrategyences' you get 0.47. Try it: you can basically insert 'strategy' inside ANY word and really raise your score. Actually, if you just insert "strateg" anywhere inside the text, it goes up massively.
So I actually think it's just doing string search counts over a lexicon.
Re: BlaBlaMeter detects how much bullshit is in your text
#66I think that this works by calculating something called the Gunning Fog index , ie the no. Of words in a sentence with more Syllables than usual .
Re: BlaBlaMeter detects how much bullshit is in your text
#67I 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 :)
I tried with my own blog post, good to know its not full of bullshit
Re: BlaBlaMeter detects how much bullshit is in your text
#68I 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?
Re: BlaBlaMeter detects how much bullshit is in your text
#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
You're just bitter that that era of philosopher in general used an artificially complicated writing style, complete with invented terminology, that borders bullshit :)
I'm just pointing out it is broken. Finnegan's Wake, Chapter 2, Book 1. > Bullshit Index :0.11 Your text shows only a few indications of 'bullshit'-English. definitely broken Or perhaps it's a feature and it can pick out philosophical / artistic 'bullshit' from PR 'bullshit'. Quote for people not familiar with 'Finnegan's Wake' > And aroud the lawn the rann it rann and this is the rann that Hosty made. Spoken. Boyles…
You have a weird definition of 'bullshit' if you think that counts.
Anyway, I'd assume it's looking for certain 'filler' words and phrases that get used a lot when writing BS.
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#70"We use innovative cloud-based patent-pending technologies to leverage synergies between verticals. In order to facilitate the maximum return on investment, we hyperfocus on execution and delivery. We find our clients often fail to think outside the box, but with our proprietary technologies we help to identify action items that directly impact the bottom line."
Bullshit Index: 0.46 Something's getting a bit fishy. You probably want to sell something, or you're trying to impress somebody. It still may be an acceptable result for a scientific text.
Pretty good figuring it's under the 5 sentence recommendation.