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 life changing thing happens to you in the senior year of high school, and I think it happens, uh, during a visit to Penn. Um, tell me the story. You got, you're a senior in high school. It's 2009 and you are, you're in Philadelphia visiting Penn. Why are you there? Why are you visiting? You're visiting because you're presumably because you want to go there. Tell me the story.

A Yeah. So I was, uh, actually to step back, right? So a couple months before visiting Penn, um, I was starting to feel thirsty a lot. And so I got to the point where I couldn't go through a whole hour long class without having to leave, go get some water from the water fountain and come back. And then it got to the point that I couldn't drive from school back home without stopping at a convenience store to buy a gallon of water and drink it on the way back. And so I'm getting more and more thirsty. I don't know why I'm getting thirsty. And To me, drinking water is a good thing, so I wasn't too concerned about it, and then I got accepted into Penn, and so I went to Penn for this kind of new student day, um, and I got there with my family. We're staying in a hotel the night before this whole thing's scheduled to start. We walk around campus, um, and I, I pass out as we're, as we're walking around campus.

AI assessment note: “I pass out as we're, as we're walking around campus.”

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

Q And you had, I mean, you had two businesses, basically tech startups, right? Um, you know, one was a recruiting platform, one was an insurance platform, but they were tech startups, and so it, naturally, you would think that you would try another one, another sort of tech startup.

A Yeah, I mean, I knew how to write software and build fully functioning apps and websites, and you can do that without spending any money other than your time, and so I was very Interested in that path. I actually, to be frank, probably didn't spend as much time as I should have or could have thinking about, Hey, well, what industry might I want to go into? What I might want to do? I just knew I wanted to help people. And I thought that if I could come forward with a product or service that helps people and made their lives better, that they would pay me for it. And I could worry, you know, and the rest of it would fall into line after that.

AI assessment note: “I knew how to write software and build fully functioning apps... very Interested in that path”

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