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No, fans of Fight Club on Facebook are much less conformist than other people on Facebook. If you actually read the article and came to this conclusion then either I'm a bad writer…

It's very awesome. My favorite find of the last several months, if not year. I'm curious, what are you going to do with it?

My best interpretation: The fan profile shows that Fight Club is particularly appealing to the 18-30 crowd (makes sense). It's also a smart film. Most people who like it are either…

We have a lot of Facebook profile info and psychology survey data, going to write some fun, OkCupid-style posts with it. If anyone wants to get involved, let me know at tim [at] my…

We have not just Facebook movie data but obviously books, music and lots of other good stuff. Lots of relationships to explore between "likes" and personality, values, morals, whic…

This leak doesn't really provide information on what the government is doing. They are low level reports written from the field, largely recognized by people working in this space …

Yes, it's a biased sample. I've already admitted that. My point is that it's not egregiously more biased than any other sample from academia or professional surveyors, and in many …

We focused on the 11% and 3% slices, yes. But from there we looked for the most over-represented groups. The fact that the independent geeks and selfish elites are 3 and 6 times mo…

The study is getting top-of-front page coverage right now from wired.com

There's two explanations for that difference: 1) Forrestor's 3.8% was collected in June 2010, whereas our data was collected from March through May. Clearly the iPad is gaining mom…

This certainly would be a good point if it were true. In reality people come to MyType to take a personality quiz. We just randomly inserted the iPad question into the personality …

I'm the author of the post. Admittedly I got into some speculation in the post, and I tried to frame it as such, not as unequivocal facts "proven" by the data. The only thing that'…

Our sampling rigor cannot be compared to political polls, it's true. However we do weight the sample not based on guesses but on official data about the gender, age, and personalit…