Comments on: Honesty is charisma http://www.daniel-lemire.com/blog/archives/2009/02/09/honesty-is-charisma/ Computer Scientist and Open Scholar: Databases, Information Retrieval, Business Intelligence. Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:49:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Andre Vellino http://www.daniel-lemire.com/blog/archives/2009/02/09/honesty-is-charisma/comment-page-1/#comment-50635 Andre Vellino Mon, 16 Feb 2009 20:24:44 +0000 http://www.daniel-lemire.com/blog/?p=1753#comment-50635 When Obama was running for president I (frequently) heard news reports which indicated that Obama's use of language was correlated with more "deceitfulness" (e.g. usage of "we" rather than "I" and certain usages of tense and adjectives) than Clinton. I rather doubt the credibility of the science behind that claim, actually, but if it *were* true and we agree that Obama is charismatic, then there's at least one data point that contradicts this. Also - surely you can be honest and despicable. When Obama was running for president I (frequently) heard news reports which indicated that Obama’s use of language was correlated with more “deceitfulness” (e.g. usage of “we” rather than “I” and certain usages of tense and adjectives) than Clinton. I rather doubt the credibility of the science behind that claim, actually, but if it *were* true and we agree that Obama is charismatic, then there’s at least one data point that contradicts this.

Also – surely you can be honest and despicable.

]]> By: Peter Turney http://www.daniel-lemire.com/blog/archives/2009/02/09/honesty-is-charisma/comment-page-1/#comment-50621 Peter Turney Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:14:24 +0000 http://www.daniel-lemire.com/blog/?p=1753#comment-50621 Honesty plus openness is charisma. Quiet honesty is not enough. I'm only recently starting to understand this. Honesty plus openness is charisma. Quiet honesty is not enough. I’m only recently starting to understand this.

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