Apple health obscenity score

According to comprehensive research (as seen in the first result of a Google Search). Swearing makes up about 1% of a person’s total vocabulary, which is nuts. Obviously, this is a sliding scale. Some people never swear, while others swear constantly. However, for the average person, cursing occurs about 80 times per day.

This is a large enough number that it seems like it merits an underlying experience helping people quantify how dirty their mouths are. What if there were an Apple Health extension that clearly showed how many times you swear in a day? This isn’t something I’ve ever heard of (likely because you’d need to track literally everything someone says), but it is a conceptually interesting idea and could help people with swearing less.

Given the level of privacy invasion required to support this experience, I don’t see a world where Apple ships this anytime soon. However, this is theoretically feasible with existing tech, and it’d be interesting to see how or if people used this data to shape their behavior.

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