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matt4077 on Feb 7, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Elevated Use of Absolutist Words Is a Marker of An...

I just did a quick grep in a set of Speeches by two different politicians (about 20,000 words each):

    #Pol    #<absolutely|all|always|...>/#<words>
    Trump     0.013
    Obama     0.004
    Congress  0.011
    HN        0.017

Yeah, I threw in a few Hacker News comment pages (not including this one).

So, I'm questioning your assumptions...

mozumder on Feb 7, 2018 [–]

Yah that's about right. Thanks for this data. I would expect some positivity from politicians compared to HN nerds.

BTW this really shows how awful Trump is.

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