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Talking the Talk
Using data from the indispensable New
York Times’ debate
analyzer , I crunched some word-per-second numbers from
last night’s debate. Dodd talks faster than Biden and Richardson speaks the slowest of all. Clinton and Obama’s
cadences, meanwhile, are in sync.
| Talker |
Words |
Seconds of talk |
Words/sec |
|
|
|
|
| Moderators |
4131 |
1435 |
2.88 |
| Audience |
719 |
304 |
2.37 |
| Biden |
1906 |
586 |
3.25 |
| Clinton |
2944 |
953 |
3.09 |
| Dodd |
1564 |
446 |
3.51 |
| Edwards |
2010 |
627 |
3.21 |
| Kucinich |
1119 |
355 |
3.15 |
| Obama |
3339 |
1081 |
3.09 |
| Richardson |
2199 |
838 |
2.62 |
About Chadwick Matlin
- Chadwick Matlin is the staff reporter for Slate's The Big Money, a new business site launching in the fall. He can be reached at Chadwick.Matlin+TH@gmail.com
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