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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2016-06-17 04:53, Dan TheBookMan
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<div>On Jun 16, 2016, at 8:31 PM, Adrian Tymes <<a
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<div class="gmail_quote">Are there ways to measure and
quantize outrage? What are the units of measurement of
outrage? </div>
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<div>I don't know, but if no one knows then how can we seriously
talk about outrage being on the rise now?</div>
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Personal experience is fallible, but it is still data. Another
source of data is observable actions: current student protests
against too free expression on campus, did they occur in the 80s or
90s? How many riots were triggered in different decades by foreign
news? How many lawsuits over emotional distress?<br>
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I think that can be used to measure outrage. We may also run
sentiment analysis on newspaper editorials and letters to the
editor. <br>
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Dr Anders Sandberg
Future of Humanity Institute
Oxford Martin School
Oxford University
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