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 4 4.85

Q And, and this, and I guess this is when you first met Stephen, and I guess the two of you met in, in Boulder, like, through, through friends? Like, how did, how did the two of you meet?

A Yeah, so actually a woman that I had met, uh, I ended up becoming housemates with because she was also a student at Naroba, and she was friends with Stephen, so she had organized a brunch for some mutual friends we had, and And Stephen came with his fiance, and that was the first time we met, and I could tell he was interested in me, but his fiance was there, and so that was a do not pass go kind of moment, and she, his fiance also turned out to be a student at Naropa, and I had two classes with her, so um, they broke up shortly thereafter, but She, and she was spending a lot of time processing the relationship and saying all kinds of horrible things about him, so I didn't, really didn't have a very good impression of him.

AI assessment note: “she had organized a brunch for some mutual friends we had, and And Stephen came”

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

Q I, I'm trying to understand, why is it so complicated to make a consistent little piece of rubber?

A One of the things people don't realize is, you know, shoes take a lot of force. They have to absorb a lot of force. And the more complicated the shoe, the more places there are to hide your sins effectively. So because our shoe was so simple, a slight deviation from the specifications that we had set could have, you know, a significant impact. So we had put about a 100,000 dollars on those credit cards to pay for the cost of the molds, and we had to pay in advance of selling the material. So we had a lot invested in this, and so when I got, you know, we started shipping our first brand new outsoles, and I got an email from a very sweet woman who was like, hey, so one of the things that we had done is we had put little, um, Side flaps with pre-punched holes. Yeah. So she had put her kit together and gone out for a run, and the, the laces had torn through that little hole on the side, and we discovered that a good chunk of the production run, they hadn't packed enough rubber into that part of the mold.

AI assessment note: “a slight deviation from the specifications that we had set could have, you know, a significant impact.”

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