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AI Platform Assesses Trump's and Clinton's Emotional Intelligence (fastcompany.com)
FastCompany got an exclusive look at how Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump stacked up in terms of their emotional intelligence when analyzed by HireVue's artificial intelligence platform. The platform analyzes "video, audio, and language patterns to determine emotional intelligence and sentiment." The company also partnered with Affectiva for facial analysis "to measure the candidate's emotional engagement correlated down to the micro-expressions level." FastCompany reports the findings: Trump versus Clinton across all three debates. Here we see the range of emotions both candidates showed during all three debates. Clinton seemed to dominate the top-right area, which represented both "joy" and facial expressions like smiles and smirks. Conversely, Trump had a stronghold on the "sadness," "disgust," and "fear" quadrants, along with both "negative sentiment" and "negative valence." The third debate. Looking more closely at just this week's debate, negativity prevailed. Both candidates exhibited disgust during the 90-minute spectacle. Trump, however, seemed to dominate the strongest emotions with heightened scores for "fear," "contempt," and "negative sentiment." Clinton, according to the data, presented the only positive emotional elements, which included some "joy" and "smiles." Clinton's performance. Clinton's range of emotions and reactions seemed pretty consistent throughout all three debates, although she exhibited the most positive emotions during the second. What's more, according to the graph, she was most negative during this week's debate. Trump's performance. Similar to Clinton, Trump's range of emotions seemed relatively consistent throughout the three debates. The third one, however, was when he emoted the most negatively. He smirked a lot during this event, too. "Negative sentiment," "contempt," and "anger" were persistent throughout all three conversations.
If you want "change", you need to know what kind of change. Some changes would be good, some would be worse than the status quo.
The problem with Trump is that he's fighting the last war. Much of the public is afraid because their lively-hoods are in peril. Trump says it's because of immigrants and government corruption. That's no longer the case; it's actually because technology and automation will be putting most jobs on the entire planet in jeopardy within the next few decades.
Trump's proposed solutions would not solve anything, and they're aiming at issues that this country has already successfully dealt with since the 18th century: We've always been a nation with "unsavory" immigration and corrupt politicians, and somehow we've muddled through and even thrived. The actual root cause of the current public angst is an elephant in the room that NO politicians are talking about, even ones from the fringe parites.
So while the status quo isn't ideal, it's better than Trump's disruptive ham-handed proposals which would solve nothing. (And it doesn't help that he's an unhinged megalomaniac on top of it all.)
TFA seems to be mostly statistics about the apparent emotional states of the two candidates during each debate. That tells you little about their "emotional intelligence".
When it comes to Clinton's smiles, a lot of them seem to be fake smiles rather than genuine emotion. In fact, from Wikileaks, we know that her advisors insert "[smile]" cues into her scripted responses.
The seemingly artificial nature of Clinton's emotional expressions is one of the things that creeps so many people out about her and makes them distrust her so much (to be sure, it is reinforced by actual misconduct).
I watched all 3, and the way I judge them is as following: 1st debate: Clinton lost *less* than Trump. 2nd debate: Trump won by a small margin. 3rd debate: Trump won, but the "nasty woman" comment diminished his victory considerably. Alfred E. Smith Dinner: Trump tanked hardcore. He was doing well until he started in on how corrupt Hillary is. It was not in the spirit of the gathering. Clinton also took mean-spirited pot-shots at him, but he started it. If he had avoided his comments and let her make hers, he would have been better off for it. After watching this event live, Trump seems like a candidate that's trying to lose.
Eh? I'm not so sure I agree with that sentiment. Clinton definitely won the first debate, I mean, that was what sent Trump into his massive death spiral. Before, they'd actually been approaching ~ neck and neck, and her bringing up the Miss Universe model was particularly effective. The second debate was also a clear Clinton victory; she consistently dominated throughout, and once again, Trump completely spiraled out of control both during and afterwards. The third one I'd actually say was a Trump "victory", in that it was by far his best performance and her worst, but he really screwed it up by showing he has the emotional maturity of a preschooler by refusing to respect the people's wishes. The dinner, in contrast, hasn't really had time yet to show any results, and while I think he acted in a manner unbecoming of a president, he's been this way since the start of his campaign. Do you rememher him nicknaming all of his Republican competitors? He spouted a lot of very similar rhetoric that he now uses against Clinton, and if the dinner surprised you on that front, well, I think you're wishful overlooking his personality.
Now, those were measurements based on their ratings afterward. If we're measuring this like a traditional debate, where you say who won by providing the best support for their case, then Clinton blew Trump away on every point. She's been very consistent with providing her policies and has actually done a very good job of showing what she's intend to do as president. Whether she'll manage to fulfill it or not, we'll see, but I have no doubt what her intentions are. Trump, on the other hand, rambles off on irrelevant tangents and has to bullshot his way through every question because he has no idea about anything related to being a pesident, has an uncontrollable tendency to exaggerate and even spout straight up lies, and can't make up his mind on any issue. I mean, how often has he changed his policy on immigration? How often did he run his mouth off about Mr. Obama despite the birth certificate having been available for years? His basic honesty and truthfulness are non-existant, he has some extremely shady ties that he refuses to speak at all of, and his well documented history of business goes against literally everything he says he stands for. A man who has a history of exploiting his workers, outsourcing all of his labor unessecarily because it's slightly cheaper, and hides his failures and debt should say a lot about that person, and exactly what he would do as president. Not once during any of the debates has he even tried to address any one of these issues, and indeed, he's really magnified them and exposed who he truly is. The only thing left is to see who the United States wants to characterize itself as.
"Set a man a fire, he'll be warm for the rest of the night. Set a man afire, he'll be warm for the rest of his life."
> actually seems to garner extra support from their followers by being outlandish.
I wouldn't say extra support. Trump absolutely knows his fanbase, the reality-tv loving, racially insecure (but not financially insecure, trump primary voters average $11K more in yearly income than both clinton and sanders primary voters) authoritarian-leaning types. For them it is not about policy, its about the feels and he gives them the best feels. But they only make up about 40% of the republican party, and everybody else is pretty much grossed out instead of turned on by that shit.