Originality score
Spot weak signals and outliers
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Last Update 3 years ago
How to define originality?
"An original answer is one not similar to others. It is an answer with a unique style and substance." In practical terms, SimpleX provides a measure of how unique an answer is, within all the answers of the given survey it belongs to.
By definition, an answer that had a perfect duplicate within the survey is not at all original. Conversely, an answer whose meaning would be very different from every single answer in the survey would be rated a very original.
In order to compute originality scores, click on Advanced Tags and switch on on the Originality toogle.
SimpleX computes a score between 0% (there is a perfect duplicate) to 100% (there is not even remotely similar answer in the survey). The score is displayed attached to each answer.
You can sort the answers by the increasing or decreasing score of originality.
The measure is relative within a survey. A survey with a low standard deviation (many similar answers) will tend to post higher scores.
The fact that two answers scoring the same 50% originality level in two different surveys does not say anything about the relative originality of the two answers.
The originality score is capped and normalized to 100%. This number has no absolute meaning per se.
Use cases
This score and the sort feature can prove handy in different use cases, especially when:
- you are looking for maverick answers, requiring to be deleted
- you are looking for weak signals
- you are looking for the most common answers and repetitive answers