Algorithm detects Canadian politicians' spin
Algorithm detects Canadian politicians' spin based on
a psychological model constructed by James Pennebaker at the University of Texas, Austin, US. While studying the lying and truth-telling of hundreds of test subjects, he uncovered patterns linked to deception, such as the decreased use of personal pronouns – such as I, we, me, us – and exception words, such as “however” and “unless".the results where Martin received a ranking of 124, while Harper and Layton scored 73 and 88, respectively.
Used against Tony Blair I wonder if it would be able to handle numbers big enough?
1 Comments:
very scary:
www.harperstiestousa.org
very funny:
http://arkady.indymedia.org/media/video/StandUpnSING-lo.mov
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