Quantifying cyber-pottymouths
posted by robert - March 1st, 2007 at 2:02 PMThe News Buckit takes up InstaPunks challenge:
Well, I propose an exercise to be perfomed by those who have the software and expertise to carry it out. The exercise is this: Search six months’ worth of content, posts and comments, of the 20 most popular blogs on the right and the left. The search criteria are George Carlin’s infamous “7 Dirty Words.”
I am absolutely certain that the left will far exceed the right in the number of usages of all these words, which will go a long way toward proving that it’s the right which is still concerned with ideas while it’s the left that’s obsessed with the lowest kind of hateful invective.
Anyone care to take up the challenge?
The results are interesting, to put it …diplomatically.
March 1st, 2007 at 3:30:28 pm
Interesting. What I find even more so is how well this correlates to most Lefties and Righties I know. Perhaps a contributing factor to the er…., “cleanliness” (bad choice of words) on the Right would be the number of Conservative Christians posting.