Friday, April 05, 2013

Bulls**t detector

Here's a bit of fun. The NZ Initiative asks,

"How full of it are you? Run your writing (or indeed any writing at all) through this website to get a bulls**t reading. "


I've scored from .17 to .22 - apparently showing "only a few indications of bullshit language" to "some signs but within acceptable limits."


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6 comments:

  1. Mark Hubbard3:45 PM

    Love this.

    Too scared to use it.

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  2. Lindsay Mitchell3:58 PM

    Put someone else's in then. I found a couple in the .3s - one an ex MP and the other a NZ Herald columnist.

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  3. JC4:48 PM

    I get:

    "Bullshit Index :0.17
    Your text shows only a few indications of 'bullshit'-English."

    JC

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  4. Oswald Bastable7:01 PM

    Cut and pasted out of one of my books and my sci-fi scores .12

    :-)

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  5. Johnny5:29 PM

    Are you sure this wasn't published on 1 April? My result same as everyone else's.

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  6. homepaddock11:04 AM

    A commenter on one of my post's put David Shearer's Q+A interview and found:

    . . . the text from his ramble about economic development and capital gains tax scored 0.43: “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.”

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