<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">There's a new post on the <a href="http://illinois.edu/goto/weboflanguage">Web of Language</a>:<div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px; white-space: pre; ">Words don't lie, part II: Perception Analyzer reveals no Jack Kennedys at vice presidential debate</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; white-space: pre;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10px; white-space: normal; ">During the first presidential debate last week, CNN used a <a href="http://www.cinfo.com/" mce_href="http://www.cinfo.com/">Perception Analyzer</a> to track audience responses to the candidates. Members of a focus group in Columbus turned the analyzer's dial to the left when they didn't like what they heard, and to the right when they did, which presumes they prefer being right of center. Analysis of the results showed that most of the audience stayed awake for most of the 90-minute-long debate.</span></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; white-space: pre;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; white-space: normal;">The network deployed the Perception Analyzer again at the vice presidential debate last night at Washington University in St. Louis, only with a twist: CNN turned it into an IQ meter for Gov. Palin, and a foot-in-mouth detector for Sen. Biden.</span></font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; white-space: pre;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; white-space: normal;">In the end, though, the technology didn't tell us any more than the candidates did. Palin showed no palpable IQ deficits, though she did once call her opponent Sen. Obiden and she mis-named the general commanding American forces in Afghanistan. Biden outscored her by showing more grasp of concrete detail, while keeping both feet<span> </span>planted firmly on the floor. . . .</span></font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">To no one's surprise, last night in St. Louis neither candidate proved to be Jack Kennedy. Neither even came close to channeling Lloyd Bentsen. Fortunately, neither of them looked to be the next Dick Cheney, either. And former Vice President Quayle held onto his title of "dumber than a sixth grader." . . .</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; white-space: pre;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; white-space: normal;">read the rest of this post and see pictures of the Perception Analyzer at work on <a href="http://illinois.edu/goto/weboflanguage">the Web of Language</a></span></font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; white-space: pre;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; 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