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 →

Emily Sundberg 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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Answered raw tape D 5 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 4 4.85

Q That's cool. Yeah. Do you, uh, so are, are you a columnist over there or are you a contributor? Like how does, with the actual shape, do you get assigned things? Like I've had reporters reach out to me and be like, I was assigned a story on nicotine, so I need to talk to you as an expert or whatever.

A So with GQ specifically, my editor, Dan, um, when I wrote the Zinn story and when I wrote the story about members clubs last year, both Were because I, I had written about both of those topics in my newsletter and he was like, I think it would be interesting for you to expand upon this and like a larger feature in a, in a print issue. Um, and that's how that's happened. I, I don't really, but like, I'm at the point now where if I have an idea of a great story that I want to write, like it doesn't make sense for me to pitch it to the times or to New York magazine, because it, I can get it done faster on feed me.

AI assessment note: “he was like, I think it would be interesting for you to expand upon this”

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