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 →

Drew Conway no published score: only 1 usable exchange 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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Q Do you need to work with a subject matter expert? You don't need to be one.

A I can, I can give a, I mean, I, I can give a very specific example. I didn't actually get to talk about my past. It's not very interesting, but one of the things, the first thing that I did, I, I worked in the intelligence community for five years. I was a computational social scientist, which I think is what they call data science back in the mid 2000. Um, and the last job I had before I went to graduate school was actually working Um, for an organization called the Joint IED Defeat Organization, so we were creating models that we would actually use to predict the placement of IEDs in Iraq and Afghanistan, and we would send down range, you know, predictions wrapped up as tactical moves to soldiers to say, here's where we think you should avoid today, here's where you think you should avoid tomorrow, and the subject matter expert there was the soldier on patrol. So like, this is a very sort of, Tactile example of subject matter expertise mattering is when you say to a soldier, I don't think you should go down that corner and they say to you that corner has been blown up for two weeks. It doesn't exist anymore. You know, that's when you really get to understand the reason why having really sort of in the loop data and subject matter experts is really impactful. So it's like, you know, sort of everything else that you do, everything else that I've done that since then sort of inf…

AI assessment note: “having really sort of in the loop data and subject matter experts is really impactful”

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