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 →

Mac McCaughan 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 5 · Cm 4 4.85

Q I guess, I guess after a year in at Columbia, you decided to take a year off and go come back to North Carolina, and you moved to Chapel Hill. Did you, was, was there a reason why you did that?

A Well, I ended up taking a year off after two years at Columbia. It was originally because as much as I loved New York, I also missed being in North Carolina and being able to play music, because playing music was what was difficult about being in New York. You know, you can't just have a band playing in your dorm room or your apartment like you can in Chapel Hill or whatever, and I did have a couple times of, like, taking my amp and my guitar on the subway downtown to a practice band. And it's just like, that was, that was a drag. So then I had a year off, which was awesome, because it was, you know, living in North Carolina, playing music, working at Kinko's, and Pizza Place, and record store, and Just doing different things. Just doing different things.

AI assessment note: “It was originally because as much as I loved New York, I also missed”

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