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Inferring Personality From Email Addresses

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i-really-don't-even-care-for-tacos-that-much dept.

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."'

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  1. Re:Erste gepostung by pandrijeczko · · Score: 0, Redundant

    We already know that.

    Note the ".de" - she's German, she has no sense of humour.

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  2. Re:When reading this... by cwAllenPoole · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Oh come on, XKCD has a better one.

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