For the curious, our lab scored Biden's 2023 SOTU speech for integrative complexity: 1.66. This is very low. But it is consistent both with his prior SOTU speeches and the more general trend of decreasing complexity observed in U.S. presidents: https://
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Are U.S. Presidents Becoming Less Rhetorically Complex? Evaluating the Integrative Complexity of Joe Biden and Donald Trump in Historical Context - Lucian G. Conway, Alivia Zubrod, 2022 https://t.co/aTofX7mdrP
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Interesting trend.
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RT @LGConwayIII: Biden's low-complexity SOTU speech continues a trend we discuss in a recent paper: https://t.co/YowNtlIDqn