The Exchanges

Every argument clarity score on this site is built from rows on this page. Each question and answer was assessed with names hidden, the host's own answers included, on four things from 1 to 5: directness (does it answer the question asked), coherence (do the ideas follow), precision (concrete details and clear references), compression (says a lot per word). The weighted mix (30/30/25/15) is the exchange score. A person's published score averages their exchange scores on raw tape only, at least 8 of them, shrunk toward the cohort mean. Full method →

Gary Wolf no published score: no usable exchanges on raw tape, and a fair score needs 8+ record → ← everyone

Every exchange below was scored with names hidden, four dimensions each from 1 to 5. An exchange's score is 0.30·directness + 0.30·coherence + 0.25·precision + 0.15·compression. The published score averages the raw tape exchange scores and shrinks small samples toward the cohort mean, so five great answers can't beat twenty good ones. Produced feed rows count only toward coarse estimates, never toward a full score.

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Answered produced feed D 5 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.60

Q And so by daily aspect, you mean something as concrete as how we sleep?

A Right, exactly, exactly. How we sleep, how we feel. Go to any bookstore, and you'll see shelf after shelf of ideas about things that are supposed to dramatically improve our lives. Most of these ideas are tried without any attempt to carefully measure whether they work for us or not. And you may think that that, that sort of failure to follow up and failure to reason carefully about our actions typifies just new age stuff or self-help stuff. But let me tell you, even in the world of professional science, the drugs that we take, there's really a lack of ability to carefully think about how these affect our Us, as individuals, even if we have good evidence at the group level, often what we care about most is, did it work for me? And also, what price did I pay in terms of, say, side effects? And all of these areas are now sort of dramatically accessible to us in a way that they never have been before.

AI assessment note: “Right, exactly, exactly. How we sleep, how we feel.”

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