Barack Obama, Master Manipulator vs. McCain sad old guy

[Heraclitus]

Who is left better off by this?

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"The voice analysis profile for McCain looks very much like someone who is clinically depressed," says Pollermann, a psychologist who uses voice analysis software in her work with patients. Previous research on mirror neurons has shown that listening to depressed voices can make others feel depressed themselves, she says.

In general though, Obama's speeches contain considerably higher spin than either McCain or Clinton. For example, for their speeches accepting their party's nomination for president, Obama's speech scored a spin value of 6.7 - where 0 is the average level of spin within all the political speeches analysed, and positive values represent higher spin. In contrast, McCain's speech scored -7.58, while Hillary Clinton's speech at the Democratic National Convention scored 0.15. Skillicorn also found that Sarah Palin's speeches contain slightly more spin than average.

So McCain is a straight talker but may be depressed.
And Obama is a master manipulator.
Hillary was compared to him, rather honest.



I think I may be warming up to Barack after all.

[MarkG]

huh? what do they determine as spin and how do you measure it?

[Aeson]

How many times they turn around during the speech

[Pekka]

They've measured facials and voice, meaning that they've sort of measured those to determine if the person is saying what he believes is true.

So it's not spinning issues, but if you believe what you are saying is true. I actually have investigated this method of lie detecting using voice analyzers, and it has a pretty good odds, but it doesn't function like this at all. So no, you can't actually measure it too much using public speeches, as in you still need a person conducting it, asking questions, control questions, everything, just like in normal lie detection situation. Otherwise it doesn't work well, or at all. But otherwise it is an interesting technology, we were looking that to see if we could hunt down hackers calling in via phone and asking for information, meaning that they lie who they are and if we could detect that easily, automatically, it would be of great advantage. Turns out it doesn't work, unless the person on the other end of the line is as good as an actual lie detection specialist. So no. Not yet at least.

[Jon Miller]

McCain 08 is very different from McCain 00.

JM

[FrostyBoy]

This is news to me, wtf is spin? and yes, how is it measured?

Sorry I don't understand, I live in a stable, conservatively advanced country.

[Tattila the Hun]

Spin, I think, making bad, or neutral things sound good?

[Ninot]

maybe Michelle Obama should run

[Ramo]

huh? what do they determine as spin and how do you measure it?

The algorithm counts usage of first person nouns - "I" tends to indicate less spin than "we", for example.

We believe this algorithm to be very reliable.

[MarkG]

but there is no other way to say "we are the ones we've been waiting for"

[Theben]

I personally feel that McCain has lost his desire to win the election, after having to submit to the far right ideology and having to pick Palin.

[chequita guevara]

Maybe the campaign is wearing him out.

[Imran Siddiqui]

We should have someone do a voice analysis of all the co-hosts of Polycast

[Theben]

But then we'd have to listen to them.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Well, I don't.