I'd really love there to be a Pepsi challenge to see whether these expert readers could, blinded, reliably discern transcriptions of real dialogue from recent written dialogue by out-group authors. How is this notion not wildly offensive to the groups being supposedly protected? Especially when given that Brooklyn librarians are being asked to correct dialogue from escaped prisoners...
I'd really love there to be a Pepsi challenge to see whether these expert readers could, blinded, reliably discern transcriptions of real dialogue from recent written dialogue by out-group authors. How is this notion not wildly offensive to the groups being supposedly protected? Especially when given that Brooklyn librarians are being asked to correct dialogue from escaped prisoners...
ReplyDeleteJebus that's a good point.
ReplyDeleteThis should be empirically testable...like theraputic touch...or astrology...
I am super-duper-pissed that I did not think of that point, A.