http://www.blablameter.com/index.php
FWIW, I ran some sample text from me, Steve, Marcus, Jochen, and Pamela
through it. My score was highest, at 0.18! I was followed closely by
Steve at 0.17, Jochen at 0.16, Marcus at 0.14, and Pamela at 0.12.
I considered doing the same, but realized that few if any of my missives
are under the 15,000 character limit and most everyone else's don't
reach the 5 lower line limit!
I'm curious what their heuristic/metric might be as I'm a firm believer
that one person's signal is another person's noise.
I can imagine getting a high (low?) score myself based on (over)use of
qualifiers, of run-on-sentences and with a human in the loop, possible
(seeming) non-sequitors... but I doubt blablameter can detect a
non-sequitor. I suppose it might also use some kind of
word-frequency/lexicon/thesaurus to determine how many "esoteric" words
are used...
This can't be the only measure out there purporting to do this type of
thing. I didn't (without trying hard) find any background on this
tool/project... do we know more about it?
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