Excitability of Security Now! Presenters

18:38.55 - Friday 6th January 2006   (Link to This Entry)

Dear Distinguished Collegues,

We would like you to peer-review our findings in the above field.

Having monitored the content of the Security Now! podcasts, we have graphed the number of excited pauses and temporary stutters from Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte. We plotted the number of occurrences of the phrases 'Well,' and 'you know' in each of the transcripts and divided them by the transcript filesize (plain text), and multiplied by 100 to achieve a usable index.



Preliminary Findings:
From the data obtained, it was suggested that:

• The presenters were very excited about their first episode.
• Episode 7 got Steve Gibson going on his favourite topic.
• Neither presenter was very excited about Episode 11.
• The Excitability Index trend is gradually downwards.

Future work:
It is possible to deduce the number of times Mr. Laporte is corrected by counting the occurrences of the phrase 'Oh, okay'. Examining the trend for this phrase may show whether he is learning to think before speaking.

Thank you for your attention, your comments would be appreciated.