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Using Facebook Data, Algorithm Predicts Personality Better Than Friends
sciencehabit writes: A new study of Facebook data shows that machines are now better at sussing out our true personalities than our friends. One of the standard methods for assessing personality is to analyze people's answers to a 100-item questionnaire with a statistical technique called factor analysis. There are five main factors that divide people by personality—openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism—which is why personality researchers call this test the Big Five. People can accurately predict how their friends will answer the Big Five questions. ... Compared with humans predicting their friends' personalities by filling out the Big Five questionnaire, the computer's prediction based on Facebook likes was almost 15% more accurate on average, the team reports online today in PNAS (abstract). Only people's spouses were better than the computer at judging personality.
And yet, I got dirty looks in church on Sunday because I didn't know somebody was seriously ill for a month with pneumonia. Apparently, everybody (but me) has been talking about it on Facebook and if I don't know I'm the bad guy.
You don't use Facebook.
Your'e halfway there.
Quit going to church and you will finish the task of disassociating yourself
from idiots and their idiotic behavior.
There is no god, all religions are a primitive method for controlling large numbers of
people. Now, government serves that function. Religion is for fools who lack the courage
to embrace reality and so they need a fairy tale to help them muddle through their existences.
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