Saturday, October 02, 2004

Bush-Kerry debate linguistic stats

Interesting debate linguistics stats from Lucas Gonze's friend Anatole :

Bush's use of contractions: 4.4% of words.
Kerry's use of contractions: 3.6% of words.

Bush's average sentence length: 12.681 words.
Kerry's average sentence length: 14.896 words.

Bush's average sentence fragment length: 7.251 words.
Kerry's average sentence fragment length: 7.677 words.

Bush's spoken words: 6332 words.
Kerry's spoken words: 6696 words.

Bush's vocabulary: 1032 unique words (de-stemmed).
Kerry's vocabulary: 1076 unique words (de-stemmed).


More stats on his post : http://gonze.com/weblog/story/10-1-4#10-1-4

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