Can you assess the reasonableness of a speech?
April 18, 2017
Social scientists say yes.
Remember when conservative writer Charles Murray was shouted off campus at Middlebury College last month by protesters who decried his views as extreme? Well, Murrayโs speech, eventually delivered via livestream, wasnโt all that extremist, according to a statistical analysis that should interest speechwriters at the very least for its claim to be able to quantify the reasonableness of a speech.