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Inferring Personality From Email Addresses
paleshadows writes "Three researchers from the University of Leipzig published an interesting paper titled 'How extroverted is honey.bunny77@hotmail.de? Inferring personality from e-mail addresses' (PDF). From the abstract: 'Email addresses represent the thinnest slice of information that people receive from one another. Using 599 e-mail addresses of young adults, their self-reported personality scores and the personality judgments of 100 independent observers, it was shown that personality impressions based solely on e-mail addresses were consensually shared by observers. Moreover, these impressions contained some degree of validity. This was true for neuroticism, openness, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and narcissism but not for extroversion."'
I don't know, but I have a suspicion that he/she doesn't have much of a sense on humour.
It's true I tell you, feller at work's next door neighbour read it in the paper.
What does the address chunkylover53@aol.com tell you?
Ho! Haha! Guard! Turn! Parry! Dodge! Spin! Ha! Thrust!
I mean, consider an address like "leatherdude@hotmale.com", "bottom4lrgck@gmail.com", or "cowboyneal@slashdot.org" It's fairly safe to assume they're into the gay scene.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
From that I can tell you are a some what a geek who visits sites like SlashDot. It also tells me that you are concerned about your email address being harvested and eventually being used as a target for spam.
Now do me. My email address is: useless.research.nominations _at_ elmuerte.com
You clearly have far too much spare time & not enough to do.
Gentoo Linux - another day, another USE flag.
...one question comes to mind: Is psychology really a science?
also, if he's got "creepy" in his username...
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
that if you have multiple email addresses you have multiple personalities?
God, schmod. I want my monkey man!
If his/her address is s.ballmer@microsoft.com, they might be short-tempered.
One of my favorites, though, is the story of a guy applying for a job at Yahoo! He registered the email account "iwanttowork(@yahoo.com)," and used that to send his resume. They hired him.
I live in Sweden, and here the unemployment benefits are great. One of the conditions for receiving benefits is that you keep looking for a job...
Hence, I was once presented with an application sent from a guy with the illustrious address of lazybastard@coffebreak [rest of address withheld].
True story.
as my email address. That way, anyone can learn anything they want to know about me.
Creationists.
I'm disabling ads until because I choose not to reward redesigns that are less usable than "view source".
I still feel insulted a little when I read things like these.
So let me get this straight. I'm guessing you are probably of German descent, and you're insulted that someone was coyly and humorously teasing Germans...for lacking a sense of humor?
I just wanted to make sure I didn't miss anything... :-p
but have you considered the following argument: shut up.