Jerk-O-Meter to Meter Jerks

prostoalex writes "The Jerk-o-Meter from MIT will analyze voice patterns of phone conversations and display a relative value of jerkiness factor on the scale of 0 to 100. For now, the Jerk-O-Meter is set up to monitor the user's end of the conversation. If his attention is straying, a message pops up on the phone that warns, 'Don't be a jerk!' or 'Be a little nicer now.' A score closer to 100 percent would prompt, 'Wow, you're a smooth talker.'"

Comments

Application?

[FhnuZoag]

Think of the usefulness of this thing in monitoring political speeches....

What we REALLY need...

[catdevnull]

Forget that device, what we really need is Caller IQ!

Oh man

[mcc]

When you're getting advice in social graces from MIT... you know something's wrong

BA-DUM CHING

Re:Really now...

[Randseed]

And like, omg, this is so useless for females. I mean like, we are born with our very own Jerk-O-Meter's anyway!

Without a doubt. That's how women manage to keep dating the biggest jerks they can find, and complain to their "nice guy friend" who "they don't think of in that way" because "he's so nice and understanding."

Re:Calling home

[tod_miller]

Layman terms:

Both sides of the brain compete to read a word:

You try and 'read' the letters, and 'look at' the word. Which means many times the people see the words as shapes, not information.

When writing, we always look back on what we type, even visually (when assembling words).

The only pertinent parallel I can think of is when a hot chick in a shirt shirt skirt walks into the room, but is showing all her cleavage, and you mind fights itself, as your fovea centralis tries to split and focus all its cones on both her assets.

Dyslexia is like that, and then having a pop quiz if you noted her name on her id badge.