The inauguration of President-elect Trump promises to be a taxing and stressful day for many, especially for those who supported Hillary Clinton, and vox.com is on it!
The so-called explainer website launched an “emotion tracker” Friday to gauge how people feel about the transfer of power from President Obama to the Queens businessman, whose rise to political power caught just about everyone in media totally off guard.
Inauguration Day emotion tracker: share how you’re feeling right now and we’ll tell you where you stand with others https://t.co/LmmEjjQYO7
— Vox (@voxdotcom) January 20, 2017
“On Inauguration Day, Donald Trump will be sworn in as the president of the United States with the lowest approval rating for any incoming president in the modern era. So we want to know: How are you feeling about it?” vox.com’s Soo Oh asked.
She asked of her readers, “Submit up to five emotions, and we’ll tell you the most common emotion other readers are feeling, as well as how many other people are feeling the way you do. We’ll also grid all the collective feels by their level of happiness and intensity after you submit. You can come back to this page throughout the day and refresh the latest results, too.”
The site then allows the reader to submit an emotion into a widget headlined, “Right now, I’m feeling _____.”
I wrote, “coquettish.”
How does this even work?
Oh explained, “We’re using a publicly available dictionary of words rated by their emotional valence — i.e., whether they evoke positive or negative feelings — and arousal, or how intense the word is. These dictionaries are commonly used for emotion research and sentiment analysis.”
I’m going to go out on a limb here and guess that the end-of-day results for this particular vox.com experiment will be less than cheery.
