{"id":199,"date":"2005-08-12T17:09:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-12T23:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/?p=199"},"modified":"2005-08-12T17:09:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-12T23:09:00","slug":"will-the-jerk-o-meter-help-relationships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/12\/will-the-jerk-o-meter-help-relationships\/","title":{"rendered":"Will The Jerk-O-Meter Help Relationships?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed what they call the Jerk-O-Meter<\/em>. It’s software intended for mobile phones that tells the caller if the person on the other line is paying attention to their conversation.<\/p>\n

Anmol Madan, the project lead for the Jerk-O-Meter<\/em>, claims that the software is intended to improve relationships, not end them. The researchers see it as a way to keep people truly engaged.<\/p>\n

I have serious reservations about this technology. If implemented, this software may override simple human intuition, and decide through it’s computer calculations<\/em> that the person on the other line is a jerk – even if they aren’t.<\/p>\n

I can’t help but remember the airplane scene in the movie Anger Management<\/a>. Adam Sandler’s character was being verbally accused by an airline stewardess, because she thought he was being unruly, even though he wasn’t. Eventually, there came a point where he started to get verbally defensive, and was then attacked by a federal marshal and arrested.<\/p>\n

The Jerk-O-Meter<\/em> will create defensiveness for defensiveness’ sake. If the software tells Caller 1 that Caller 2 is being a jerk, Caller 1 may say something to Caller 2 about it. How should Caller 2 react? If most people were Caller 2, they would react defensively, especially if they don’t think they’re being a jerk – as the computer suggests they are.<\/p>\n

Anmol Madan and the researchers at M.I.T. have a dream of bringing people closer together. Unfortunately, their Jerk-O-Meter<\/em> dream is a pipe dream<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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