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 4 · Cm 4 4.60

Q You hated what, the software or the business?

A I hated surveys. Like, uh, like, you know, Americans this year will get over forty billion surveys and they all look like you're taking the SAT test. You know what I mean? And, uh, and I thought there had to be a better way. So we, we went back to the drawing board and we said, we're not going to, fortunately I still owned and I still own the business. I was one of the few players in my space that didn't raise like venture money. So I had the latitude to do what I wanted to do. And we said, Hey, we can make surveys. Actually be part of the customer experience. We can make the act of asking for feedback be, uh, something that's really enjoyable. And then also we can, by extension, make how you share that, that information, that data with the employees, something that builds them up and makes them better at their jobs. And, and the, the way we ultimately figured out how to do that was to blend three things, great technology, which we had with great art and design and behavioral science. And that's kind of what makes us different today. So that was it, you know, eight years ago. And today that's really.

AI assessment note: “I hated surveys.”

Partly produced feed D 3 · C 4 · P 3 · Cm 3 3.30

Q All right. Tell us about the company. What are you guys doing? How do you make money?

A Uh, that's a good question. So I founded, I founded the company about 15 years ago, uh, because I needed a way to get feedback from, from customers in a business I owned at the time and I still own. And you've probably seen that, you know, customer feedback surveys everywhere you go. If you fill up for your car with gas or you buy coffee or something like that, you're going to get a request to fill out a survey. Um, and, uh, and, you know, kind of in the early days, 15 years ago, there really wasn't an approachable way, uh, to do that, so I hired a programmer and we invented a platform to get feedback from our customers and put it right in the hands of, uh, of our employees. But about eight years ago, things got really interesting because I woke up one day and realized I fucking hated it. That essentially-

AI assessment note: “we invented a platform to get feedback from our customers”

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