"And he’s learned something that might help explain why Congress is having such trouble working out a deal this week.
He learned, to his amazement, that modern members of Congress spend about 27 percent of the time just taunting each other.
“It’s jarring and surprising,” said Prof. Gary King, an expert in using computers to find patterns in large amounts of data. And, King said, probably counterproductive if we want Congress’s members to trust one another enough to make deals."
The only thing "surprising" part of this is that these taunts make up only 27% of Member communications. Maybe the Harvard professors weren't that good at reading passive-aggressive taunts?
