You're right on about the language angle, and the difficulty of determining meaning using an algorithm; in fact, I'd say you barely scratched the surface of the veritable mountain of linguistic pitfalls involved. To get an idea of why even the premise of the "echo chamber" study is complete BS, just try to come up with a list of the "informative phrases" that might be used to analyze this site. QED.
You're right on about the language angle, and the difficulty of determining meaning using an algorithm; in fact, I'd say you barely scratched the surface of the veritable mountain of linguistic pitfalls involved. To get an idea of why even the premise of the "echo chamber" study is complete BS, just try to come up with a list of the "informative phrases" that might be used to analyze this site. QED.
Posted by Walter Sobchak | Link to this comment | 03-10-05 8:51 AM