Analyzing Tweets To Identify Psychopaths

Posted by timothy on Friday July 20, 2012 @11:02PM from the except-ones-who-know-of-the-model dept.

nonprofiteer writes "Researchers presenting at Defcon next week have developed a psychopathy prediction model for Twitter. It analyzes linguistic tells to rate users' levels of narcissism, machiavellianism and other similarities to Patrick Bateman. 'The FBI could use this to flag potential wrongdoers, but I think it's much more compelling for psychologists to use to understand large communities of people,' says Chris Sumner of the Online Privacy Foundation. Some of the Twitter clues: Curse words. Angry responses to other people, including swearing and use of the word "hate." Using the word "we." Using periods. Using filler words such as 'blah' and 'I mean' and 'um.' So, um, yeah."

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Analyzing myself by KiloByte · 2012-07-20 23:17 · Score: 5, Interesting

> Curse words.
Hardly any, but mostly due to many years on a MUD with strict rules. Abusing "damn" and so on, though.
> Angry responses to other people
Hell yeah.
> including swearing and use of the word "hate."
Got a bigger vocabulary, but yeah.
> Using the word "we."
Check, to a big extent.
> Using periods.
You mean, so those with no punctuation are not morons but normal people? Blah. Check.
> Using filler words such as 'blah'
See above.
> and 'I mean'
Check.
>and 'um.'
"hrm", "hmm" and "ghrmblah" (see also two paragraphs above)
So, you mean, is there any hope for me?

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