"Textio shows you how your job listings and candidate emails will perform before you’ve even posted them. Will the role be popular among qualified job seekers? Will it fill quickly? How gender-biased is it? Our predictive models give you analytics and feedback right as you’re typing."
This is really interesting, I would love to see the data behind all these words and phrases. It also feels like something that could be rolled out more broadly for regular people to just use in their everyday writing, maybe as an educational tool for a brief period time or maybe a forever tool (like *** chrome extension that lets me know when I'm using self-deprecating language from all those studies of how women undervalue themselves).
Actually, I totally want a time-limited educational tool version of this that you could stick into your browser, and it could answer all those questions that people have when they are trying to be well-intentioned-liberals but feel overwhelmed by all the "political correctness" and scared that they are going to say the "wrong thing" without knowing it and so they lash back and name a lot of activism over-sensitive and impossible. I mean, I get it, if you have too many experiences with people yelling at you seemingly out of the blue, and you don't know how to educate yourself and feel really alienated from the spaces where you could be educated about what words mean, you might feel like a victim of a super opaque activist culture.
So what if there was this app that you installed and it would pull up hoverboxes over problematic words and phrases and explain the context of the problem and the experiences that people have had with it, and let you understand that there isn't a "ban" on using that word, or any "rules" coming down from some centralized Political Correctness Illuminati - you just have to be aware of the context and how you are using it and how it might affect people. And I would want this to be a thing that had a time limit imposed, so that people aren't passive about it and it doesn't become a constant language-policing-system, because this is about learning and introspection, so theoretically someone would download it and set the time for, say, a month and spend that month being mindful and aware and learning and then it would go away. And they could turn it back on later if necessary, but it wouldn't become something to lean on.
And then I would love a forever-thing that would highlight phrases in emails and blog posts and things that I write to let me know if there are studies that have found them to be alienating to certain people, or to subtly communicate certain things that I might not want to communicate - or might just want to be aware of.
I need to learn how to build things like this... It would be a fun pet project.
#Goals
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