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 →

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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 5 · Cm 5 5.00

Q But, I mean, you had this really great job in an apartment in New York, and what made you think, I have got to drop everything and sell coffee beans?

A Well, there's two things going on. I think Sherry and I, we had an understanding that we did not want to raise our kids in New York City. We wanted to get out. And, ah, I was in Seattle on this spectacular, majestic day like today, so the combination of all of that, and the experience I had as a customer, and watching what was going on in that first store, I, I just immediately was kind of swept away with, this is the kind of environment, product, and young company I'd like to be part of, and I, Over the course of a year, just kept banging the door to say to the founders, if you expand the company, I think I can help you. And their dream, and nothing against them, their dream at the time was to expand to Portland, Oregon. That was their big idea.

AI assessment note: “this is the kind of environment, product, and young company I'd like to be part of”

Answered produced feed D 5 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 4 4.85

Q Um, he was a, um, a driver, um, mom receptionist. I guess at a certain point when you were a kid, your dad got injured on the job?

A So my dad had a series of what I would loosely describe as really bad blue-collar jobs, and he went from one job to another. In the winter month of March of 1960, he was a Delivery driver. This is probably one of his worst jobs, picking up and delivering cloth diapers before the invention of Pampers. He fell on a sheet of ice and broke his hip and his leg, and I came home from school and he was kind of laid out on the couch. I witnessed what I would loosely describe as the fracturing of the American dream, and despair, hopelessness, and what happened in 1960, if you were a blue-collar You know, uneducated worker, despite the fact that you had served your country in World War II, there was no workman's compensation, there was no health care, and you were dismissed. Uh, but what I witnessed scarred me, and that's what we kind of went through.

AI assessment note: “He fell on a sheet of ice and broke his hip and his leg”

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