What Facebook Reveals About You
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- Your Facebook "likes" might be revealing more than you know about your private life.
It is possible to predict potentially private traits such as a person's sexual orientation, political leanings, religion, intelligence, emotional stability and even if they abuse drugs or alcohol, just by analyzing their Facebook likes, according to a new study out of the University of Cambridge."
What you "like" on Facebook may say more about you than you think. What, according to a recent study, were the things "liked" that are most determinative if someone is intelligent? the unintelligent? Can sexual orientation or any other characteristics of a person really be determined by likes? Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian break it down.
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It's 24601. Les Miserable, Cats, Ain't Misbehavin, Chicago, Rocky Horror Show, Pirates of Penzance. How can you not love musicals.
I thought everyone knew his prison number was 40318?
This is one of your more interesting reports, not to mention entertaining. Keep it coming.
"Life is a curly line" - Cenk Uygur
So on sexual orientation they were only accurate for women 75% of the time?
You'd have a better success rate if you just guessed "straight" for every answer.
The relation of lower IQ to the people who proclaim that they love being a mom or love being a dad makes sense.
No intelligent human being can declare that being a parent is the single best thing on earth... because smart people know that having kids have down points too, acknowledging that being a parent has both good and bad points are more honest... the people who claim to have no fault in being a parent are lairs.
We really do need a sarcasm button. I thought my comment was outlandish enough that it couldn't possibly be taken seriously, but then again, this is RUclips. I was just making fun of the guy who missed that Cenk and Ana were being jokey with their curly fry analysis.
About the description...
Didn't we know this a thousand times over already, or was it just me? I can pretty easily tell who's liberal and who isn't on my friends list based on who's political picture is shared or what page they like.
I like Bikes and harley davidson bikes but I don't have one or obsess about them, and i also happen to love Thunderstorms and curly fries.
I wonder how many people are going to watch this video, go to their facebook page and immediately like thunderstorms and curly fries?
Yeah, jokes are the lowest form of communication. If you want to be an intelligent person, you should never make any jokes. EVER.
That's ridiculous, unless it's sarcasm which makes it hilarious. The internet really needs a sarcasm button.
WU TANG CLAN = Masculine, Hip HOP, POWERFUL
eMinEM= gay, white, pop music, suburban, racist, oreo, etc.,
4.4% - are you saying all these people were homosexual? There's certainly a number of reasons someone would respond as such. It might be easier to say "no" if they were somehow ashamed of admitting to it. Self-reporting surveys have intrinsic error that is stated in the methods
The real questions are, what percentage of Americans do you believe are homosexual? And what is your scholarly basis for this assertion?
Self reporting polls have a built in acknowledgment of error; it's hardly naivete.
Sorry Gary, in my first response to you, I got your response confused with rvggarcon's. I hope that's not too confusing :)
Yes, you're absolutely right. The poll's limitations are within the questions. They didn't ask about past behavior. And it's potentially misleading if one's ability to compartmentalize sexual behavior with identifying as homosexual is a large factor. So you make good points. Still it doesn't make sense to be dismissive of the poll because it wasn't as robust as you'd like.
It was a random sampling of 121,290 adults. The results have 95% confidence that the maximum margin of sampling error is
I have a "facefuck" account ,however I never click "like" or "dislike" on anything
I also do not provide ANY detailed information about myself
Personally I hate social media but I do like staying in touch with my extended family and friends
Keep in mind that facebook is free so we have no rights to our content...by design.
I would prefer to pay a yearly fee because that would afford me "some" rights on their site!
Facebook is a "data mining" site designed to collect our information and sell it.
read the study. very interesting stuff. the marketing complex has been building user profiles based on where on the web we visit, how long we stay there, how we interact with the site in general. look at the average social media webpage nowadays it has minimum 10 tracking cookies. I worked on pages with over 50 tracking code snippets. this are the fruits of the internet privacy act, and the patriot act. so nothing new here. welcome to the brave new world! soma anyone?
Can they tell if somebody is Asian,Middle Eastern,Native America, or Mexican with a good %. . . or was the numbers to low?. . . i mean to say you can tell if somebody are black or white going by there likes. . is kinda easy. . i mean they chose the two races that do same things. . but in opposite ways. . .its like saying you can tell the difference between a fresh meal and a leftovers. . its pretty obvious between comparing black and white people. . .but whatever lol
Oh I'm a complex individual! Gimme 'em curly fries! My mouse is trackball-type! I sketch lightning patterns! My hat is also a beverage container! I NoScript my webpages! I only watch the TV series that feature realistic SciFi! I use two USB drives, one for personal files and one for music and images! I listen to J-rock from the 90's! I'm cutting edge complex!
Lol sorry I'm simple right now and Ana's comment about the curly fries cracked me up some.
All the IQ test measures is how good you are at taking the IQ test. I would assume there is a strong correlation between academic scores, and IQ scores, because of how IQ is measured. There is no way to quantify intelligence, unless you know what the paramaters of intelligence are. and there is good reason to be skeptical of the paramaters the IQ test sets, and of the very existence of hierarchal intelligence.
I rarely like anything on Facebook unless I feel really strongly about the subject and am prepared to get into an argument about it. So mostly, I just "like" articles about science, politics, and society.
... also promotional stuff dealing with computer games. You know those "like us on Facebook and we'll give you the Amulet of Awesomeness" sort of deal? I want that Amulet of Awesomeness, even if it means publicly declaring my geekiness.
You Know im 22 and i dont have a facebook. I stopped using it when my ex key word ex was taking gossip from her friends and other people she has no idea who is and takes it to heart. Its shows that wayyyyy to many people abuse it and depend on it for dating and i cant stand that. I mean i dont have a grudge with people that use it but i find the concept of facebook a pointless thing in peoples lives anymore and it shows.
Less intelligent people are typically more primal and simplistic in their choices, therefore your statement is correct in saying that they only use Facebook as a rudimentary tool for finding deals and updates on bands because those choices are primitive tool using behavior. I personally find lightning/thunder storms very interesting as well as nebulae and other natural occurrences. While others find them boring it's the nature of intelligence to enjoy elegant complexity. Like the curly fry.
For status updating people that would probably be true, but for general usage such as chatting which you're almost forced to use facebook for, as it has TERMINATED some other services that might have been better but just not as populated, I'd say there are some intelligent people on there - just not active on the whole updating thingy, as it's often morons who think they have something intelligent to say.
Excuse my English...
sephora lol i love being a mom is sad Harley i get but stil not al bikers are dumb but it trends i guess its good i only like if i die young, and its just catchy its not a favorite by far, and Anna , my god the Sephira stuff.... you did like it didnt you ? except that also implies the incorrect about how things work , your far past just correlation and causation with that
I love how most of the comments are people talking about themselves.
This was very interesting and honestly it wouldn't be that hard to determine some of the characteristics. Lets face it, there are a lot of predictable and dumb people on facebook.
My favourite one though was the "being confused after taking a nap", hilarious that it was actually in the top 3 most liked.
I am heavily involved in Politics
I live by what I preach
I moved to a White neighbourhood when my local turned minority White
I left my old work for the same reason
I do not associate with anti-Whites
I have changed the lives of others with the message of race reality
I have protested on the street and faced anti-White mobs
I recommend others to do the same.
I don't really care if my likes say something about me... That's the point of liking things. If I didn't want people to know that I like something, I wouldn't like them. I don't really care if someone makes some weird statistical conclusion about me unless they are wrong and they are going to use that to make some sort of decision about me.
Same for the men 88% is pretty bad... And considering that this survey was taken in America I am also not impressed with the Christianity number. If they can somehow sell this to advertisers it shows that they are good salesmen, because they are terrible at their job of analyzing the fuck out of your personal info.
oh please. I stopped the video at 1:04 . If the level of prediction these people reached was figuring out gender, colour and sexuality at a roughly 90% success rate, then I'm not even remotely impressed. I could do that with the tiniest amount of facebook information. Maybe it goes deeper, but so far, consider me unimpressed. And a white straight male. :P
People who like science are often seen as a bit weird.
People who are seen as a bit weird are more likely to see themselves as a bit weird.
People who are seen as a bit weird are more likely to try out different things. Like perhaps curly fries over the "regular" kind served a McDonald's.
Just a hypothesis.
This is not amazing at all. Imagine some gay guy "likes" a page about homosexual interest or clicks "like" on updates related to that. The same goes for religious people and other things. This is just straight forward and obvious, and if anything, the only thing amazing is that they did get close to 95% on everyone.
lol how do "likes" tell your race accurately? this would mean that racial stereotypes are accurate XD
I doubt that this accurately gauges critical thinking skills, since most intelligent people would likely not be on a social media site to begin with due to it being a cesspool of low self esteem, attention seekers who desperately want to be excepted by their peers.
Gallop's 3.5% homosexual number is not a crude estimate; it's a complex statistical analysis based on anonymous polling.
Do you have a citation to support your claim, or is this you opinion? If you're gay and you live in a gay community, this may be what is referred to as selection bias.
So let me get this straight. If I removed my avatar and changed my name, you could based on what I said, but not if its included? That's equally ridiculous. What's my political and economic beliefs have to do with this? Think what you want about them but it doesn't effect what I've said.
I have never taken an IQ test. The IQ tests only measures how good you are at taking an IQ test, to say that that is an accurate gauge of intelligence, or that intelligence can even be measured is silly. There is very good reason to be skeptical of the IQ tests.
damn I had to admit it is pretty accurate... I took my first iq test 3months ago and scored somewhere in the 130s, I think it was 133 to be exact, and I did recognize and/or like the 3 subjects under high intelligent. however I have never heard of the 3 things under low intelligent 0.o
Lol 'Nazi'. No. Nothing I said had anything do with race. I was talking about him being a politician. I couldn't care less about his race. You apparently have some opinion about it given you mentioned 'anti-white' earlier, though I can't yet determine what. Again though, stop assuming things.
Well I dont trust too much stats that go above 90% , however people are more complex then likes on Facebook. Would be rather important, to see surely what was their methodology?
I think they even said that gay people liked more human rights stuff LOL- well means they certainly better people!
Wonder if a modern motor cycle makes you dumb or smart because I dislike harley davidson and like the modern ones :P Cant even ride a harley on the GTA 4 expansion where you play a "hells angels gang" becuase I just dont like them I always pick those fine sportmotorcycles or whatever you call them :P
uh, if that's you in the avatar, i think looking at you on your facebook page would make me feel a lot less stressed out. come to think of it, it probably would actually stress me out because i'd start feeling inadequate, and why am i single blablabla, so nvm. i guess you're right, stay off fb...
This doesn't count if they only interview regular, U.S. citizens. There should be more diversity, because if the differences between whether men were straight or gay are "Shaq" and some fucking musical, then what the fuck am I if I don't like any of that shit?
You should have liked sephora, Ana. Then the average IQ of those who like it would rise - the condition sine qua non beeing: you are more intelligent than the average sephora liker now. I think that is how statistics work. But what do I know: I like Harleys - a lot.
o m f g - stop copying fox news....so many videos lately have anna on a table end looking awesome with her legs showing.....which is massively awesome to look at....but undermines your earlier 'fox news showing women' videos.
But if you dont stop....i wont mind ;)
That is wild. I think I clicked on all the smart/gay likes in the past. Well, they have me pegged. Oh. And thunderstorms they may be talking about, are usually photos of the lightening strikes in the storms. It is amazing how it shows fractal repetition in organic forms.
According to the likes and dislikes on these stats I should be a highly intellegent gay male. I'm a straight woman, I can't help it if I like science, musicals. and dislike sephora and woo tang clang what ever the hell their called.
IN THE AGE OF INFORMATION THIS IS ALL FACE BOOK CAN COME UP WITH SMH.... WHAT ABOUT PEOPLE LIKE ME WHO JUST CLICK THE LIKE BUTTON ON RANDOM THINGS BECAUSE THEY ARE POSTED AND FUNNY WHERE I LIKE IT OR NOT, GET A REAL JOB FACE BOOK STAFF LOL
So these researches figured out that if someone likes science is smart, if he likes musicals he's gay and if he likes christian or muslims posts he is christian or muslim? WOW they are so good :O I wonder how do they manage to make such awesome researches!!!!
Not really. Your in the minority so by your logic you get less rights. Have fun with that. All joking aside I don't get roused up be people like you. Mainly because I'm not a teenager, nor do consider the internet my life. So go ahead and enjoy yourself.
IQ tests are and average to be in the ball park. It could still be accurate and you do fine, depending on your strengths as an individual. Still people over really on them, often to the point of missing what they are actually supposed to tell.
Dear TYT, I love your videos, but god damn you release too many each day, 95% of my subscription page is dominated by TYT's videos, can you make a separate channel where you just upload the full episode each day instead of all these bite pieces.
I'd probably be one of those people they couldn't guess correctly. I don't like curly fries, I've liked Sephora (though like other cosmetic stores better, not MAC though...), and I have an IQ of 130+. I do love the "I fucking love science!" page though.
Soo I guess I'm a pothead cuz all my like in Facebook is all about weed and weed movies and I guess I'm dumb to for having all my like about weed ^___^ peace and pot MY pothead friends from all around the world
Which completely misses the wider-ranging implications of the study, that more subtle characteristics and other information about you can be revealed by your preferences. Try actually thinking about it for more than a second.
But they cover important stuff all the time. Are you saying they shouldn't cover this at all? That's ridiculous. This is just interesting stuff that pops up every now and then. And how is this study idiotic? It's just a study.
In my opinion Facebook is wholly pretentious and pointless but that's the world of social networking put simply. To impress others with your wide and varied interests in order to gain and maintain social status among your peers.
I don't think I've ever been asked to like "science" or "thunderstorms", but I'm subscribed to "I Fucking Love Science" and "I Fucking Love Atheism". Between the two, my page is pretty laden with science references.
Yes criss-cut are my favorite, it's what Carl's Jr calls them (west coast), or Hardee's if you're on the east coast. Agreed. Then again this is only because they are larger by volume, by volume ratio curly wins though.
I would love to see more of this study. I also had to check myself on Sephora but I was not a fan. I wonder what this says about culture. In a sense, each of these groups has their own subculture and styles.
You can tell something about someone and their personality/lifestyle choices by the things they like? You learn something everyday, I suppose.
[that was sarcasm, incase you're one of those people who likes harleys and sephora]
I did like the musical Wicked... something about the villain being good was fun.
Plus, my mother always associated me with the "Scarecrow" when I was a child and that character got a pretty cool role in the play.
Isn't this obvious? I'm an athiest, so I've liked a lot of athiest related pages. I'm studying for my CCNA, so I've liked a couple Cisco related pages. The intelligence, race, and sexuality ones are more interesting.
Just because a man likes musicals doesn't mean he's gay, it's all about the kind of musicals he likes. Like, I wouldn't call someone gay if they said they liked Little Shop of Horrors, for instance.
Ha! I like science and curly fries. The ones from arbbys kick major fry ass!
I gotta say, it doesn't seem like a very good study. Facebook sucks and my solution is 10000000000 times better.
lol cenk ... oh i just went up 9000 iq points by liking curly fries sweet thats a new record ... on another note they should include those annoying apps that people spam as a negative thing
The highest level of intelligence is for those few of us who abandoned our Facebook accounts years ago.
The lowest level of intelligence is relegated to following any Kardashian in any way.
You kinda answered your own question there. You don't care, people who like things on Facebook, do care. People like things for many different reasons but it's because they want updates on their news feed pertaining to that subject matter. It saves people the time of having to go elsewhere to be updated about whatever they liked. I specifically like different video games, especially before release because I get notified of new info, videos, deals, etc.
You really shouldnt be watching TYT because they have been doing this as well as other entertainment news since the beginning.
You are definitely in the wrong part of the internet.
Don't these people get tired of parroting the well-known mantras of stormfront? Aren't they embarrassed for being so transparently seen, or are they really not aware of how they look?
While that is hilarious, I'm sure the study took that kind of thing into account and didn't try to draw false lines of equivalency as that would harm the accuracy of the study.
Damn I thought I was the only one who was in a stage of Stupor and grumpiness when I woke up, and I did'nt even know you could like that on facebook...guess that makes me dumb.
I love science, thunderstorms, Stephen Colbert, and curly fries. Here I am stupid as shit though. ;D Breaking down the walls of stereotype, one I.Q. score at a time.
You are absolutely right, but think of what he's saying for a second and you'll see he's on to something, by the way he didn't say nothing wrong about white women.
I don't think that IQ tests have an scientific basis. Yes, many people will use that as an excuse to do badly, but that doesn't change the validity of the statement.
Somebody at Cambridge needed to publish something quick- so they got some marketing 101 textbooks and applied it to Facebook likes instead of focus groups. Useless study.
How's this news? Show me a person's likes on Facebook, and I can pretty accurately guess race, gender, and sexuality. I think ANYONE can. For Pete's sake one of my likes is a page called "I Love Being Puerto Rican." I'm sure everyone would guess I'm white... -_-
Uhm? I would think intelligent people didn't spend much time liking arbitrary things on facebook at all. I don't see a genius taking time to go "hi there world, in case you were wondering, I enjoy curly fries". If you like them, eat them, there's no need to share.
The paper is called "Private traits and attributes are predictable from digital records of human behavior" and is by Michal Kosinski, David Stillwell, and Thore Graepel in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) - an interesting read.
C'mom, I've been doing what those resercher are doing for years. Discovering people's life according to their likes is how I stalker facebook's profiles!!
OMG that is not hard at all. I can tell if a user is black or white, man or woman, gay or straight by your facebook page. FB is advertising it isn't hard at all.
My ex is one of the smartest people I've known, which is saying something since I'm a scientist with a PhD, but she loves both Sephora and Harley Davidson.
What the hell was this all about -- I just woke up from a nap. Wait, hold on -- there's a thunderstorm! I'm grabbing my curly fries and going to the window!
The question remains, do 'smart' people like curly fries because they are curly or because the seasoning that is put on them that isn't found on normal fries?
As for their accuracy on the person's ethnicity and gender, I'm assuming that those facebook users didn't have photos of themselves on their facebook profile... :P
I saw Wicked the musical, biggest mistake. I felt as though i wasted my money and evening. I cannot see why that show is so successful. Fair enough to each is own.
Lmao, how many men do you think they outed based on their facebook likes? "Gay? No...I'm perfectly straight, everyone likes Ricky Martin! What's your point!?"
Fact: Curly fries, the golden spiral, has more surface area for more seasoning. Delicious. The structure also allows for more volume of dipping sauce. Fantastic.
When you apply for a job, your employer will likely look at your online activity. So doing this kind of research is not irrelevant to people's everyday lives.
Great, this is SO going to create a whole new level of societal judgement now. Watch, now when people are being evaluated for things like dates, babysitting, job interviews, etc. their Facebook Likes are going to be checked for character insight.
This video just showed me that people still don't understand the women 25% of the time but hay were getting better every day. (society is on to you lol).
I think it's funny how when cenk goes to muffle something like "steve o", as you would in a conversation it makes it much clearer for the listeners.
Anna starts off all wrong, what you like on favebook doen't determine who you are, who you are determins what you like and it may indicate who you are.
Sooo...if someone likes Jesus they'll probably be Christian? If someone likes Andrew Christian Underwear they'll probably be gay? This was a study?
I like music of every type. Every music form has good songs. And I have been in musicals. There's alot of girls in musicals. Almost 2 to 1 girls to guys.
irregardlessly, we must not misunderestimate those particular individuals who we surveil, for the overgeneralizement will reundermine our antismarteration
My "likes" on facebook are 90% bands and artists and 10% joke sites and utter bullshit... what does that say apart from that I like music and humour?
Here you go.
Blacks like: Grape soda, melons, McDonalds, basketball and crack cocaine.
Whites like: Education, living healthy, economy and beethoven.
Cenk: "life is not a straight line (pause).. it's a curly line!"
Best commercial for curly fries! LOL!
Btw. my younger brother orders curly fries all the time. And yes, the bastard is intelligent and has way above average IQ.