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What is The Hedonometer?

  • A machine that analyses works of non-fiction
  • A machine that identifies six broad categories of story
  • A machine that controls the outcome of experiments
  • A machine that uses natural language processing and sentiment analysis to map the narrative patterns of literature (correct)

How many English-language works of fiction did The Hedonometer analyse?

  • 2,000
  • 500
  • 1,737 (correct)
  • 1,000

What are the six broad categories of story identified by The Hedonometer?

  • War, peace, power, corruption, justice, freedom
  • Rags to riches, riches to rags, man in a hole, Icarus, Cinderella and Oedipus (correct)
  • Comedy, tragedy, romance, adventure, mystery, horror
  • Love, hate, fear, joy, anger, sadness

Which of the six broad categories of story was less popular with readers than the others?

<p>Rags to riches (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who used a similar methodology to The Hedonometer to come up with eight universal story arcs?

<p>Kurt Vonnegut (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which story arc did Kurt Vonnegut leave out of his analysis?

<p>Rags to riches (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What assumption do the researchers make about math and language?

<p>They are interchangeable (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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  • Researchers from the University of Vermont and the University of Adelaide have created a machine called The Hedonometer that uses natural language processing and sentiment analysis to map the narrative patterns of literature.
  • The Hedonometer analysed 1,737 English-language works of fiction between 10,000 and 200,000 words long from Project Gutenberg.
  • The machine identified six broad categories of story: rags to riches, riches to rags, man in a hole, Icarus, Cinderella and Oedipus.
  • The machine found that one-fifth of all the works it analysed were rags-to-riches stories, which was less popular with readers than Oedipus, Man in a Hole and Cinderella.
  • The researchers promise they did not control the outcome of the experiment.
  • The machine's analysis is comparable to work from the comparative mythology school of James Frazier and Joseph Campbell.
  • Kurt Vonnegut used more or less the same methodology as the machine to come up with eight universal story arcs or "shapes of stories".
  • Vonnegut left out the rags to riches category, calling it an anomaly, but included the Cinderella arc.
  • The researchers assume that math and language are interchangeable, and that sentences, integers and lines of code are telling the same stories.
  • The machine's analysis raises questions about the difference between humans and machines.

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