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    Default How do you know if someone on the phone is a jerk??

    http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/ptech/0....ap/index.html

    Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are developing software for cell phones that would analyze speech patterns and voice tones to rate people -- on a scale of 0 to 100 percent -- on how engaged they are in a conversation.
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    Default Re: How do you know if someone on the phone is a jerk??

    This is really experimental only, and the results are typical of attempts to put the round peg of what it means to be human into the square hole of mathematics.

    From a learned critic cited in the article:

    "To me, it sounds like it's great for the entertainment factor," he said of the Jerk-O-Meter. "But I don't think you'll be able to get definitive measurements. There is just too much variability across individuals."

    A link to the actual research not the AP press piece:
    http://web.media.mit.edu/~anmol/iswc...dan-caneel.pdf
    No offense to the authors intended, but take a wild guess what might motivate a person to expend such great efforts to quantify human interaction. My guess is it is a fundamental aspect of life at which they fail miserably. They look around and see "jerks" with all the pretty girls.

    People are fundamentally lazy. They want short cuts. Expecting a machine to identify a liar, a jerk, or a potential mate short changes what little humanity remains in our culture.
    Last edited by stant; 08-15-2005 at 02:29 AM.

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    HA HA!!!!! There goes the wonderful world of phone sex......

    pamela

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