This is actually a very interesting analysis. He examines a whole bunch of cofactors that I wouldn't have even thought of. Comment length, word length, common adverbs, common pronouns, punctuation, all caps, swearing (since when is "douchebag" a swear word).
I wonder what would be revealed by this kind of analysis on the entire hacker news respository. Now, that's a large data set. (No, I'm not volunteering :-)
Yeah, I got some complaints about calling that section "swear words." Some people also complained about "cock" and "suck" and some of the other words. I guess "profanity" would have been a better term to use.
I wonder what would be revealed by this kind of analysis on the entire hacker news respository. Now, that's a large data set. (No, I'm not volunteering :-)