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I wonder if this data might be more interesting on the bottom 100 users with a longevity > 2 years. And of course it would be interesting to see the differences between the top 100 HN users and the top 100 Reddit users. That might provide some insight into the echo chamber effect.
I wonder if this data might be more interesting on the bottom 100 users with a longevity > 2 years. And of course it would be interesting to see the differences between the top 100 HN users and the top 100 Reddit users. That might provide some insight into the echo chamber effect.
This place is just as much an echo chamber as reddit. Often moreso.
Somebody please make a browser plugin that uses this data. I know the data isn't perfect, but it would be nice to be able see who in a thread is a top HNer and which character traits are outliers from the norm. You get insulted by somebody ranked low in Sympathy? No need to worry. I'm serious. Somebody do this. It would look great on the résumé.
One of the other fun ideas we had: display a personality rating next to the comment input field. Imagine how it would affect people commenting if they saw that what they are supposed to post is aggressive, or passive-aggressive ;)
This is hilarious! I'm ranked first in: Cheerfulness (Before or after morning coffee?) Orderliness (Because of my 3rd normal form sock drawer?) Gregariousness (Before of after my 3rd beer?) Agreeableness (I disagree! Watson needs debugging.) I'm ranked dead last in: Imagination (No one I know could imagine how this could be.) Authority-challenging (My teachers & bosses would disagree.) Intellect (Before or after my m…
This could make a good movie plot. The all powerful AI analyses your characteristics, gets it all wrong and assigns you to the wrong line of work (Harry Potter?) :)
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Is this a Human? Must be well rounded !
Not sure about the results, I'm pretty sur I value liberty more than Watson thinks I do.
Somebody please make a browser plugin that uses this data. I know the data isn't perfect, but it would be nice to be able see who in a thread is a top HNer and which character traits are outliers from the norm. You get insulted by somebody ranked low in Sympathy? No need to worry. I'm serious. Somebody do this. It would look great on the résumé.
On an iPad I cannot click on anything above extraversion and need to reload to click something else. Not sure about the results, I'm pretty sur I value liberty more than Watson thinks I do.
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Well, the real question this tool answers is not really "do you think X is Y", but "do you think X's comments show Y". There's also a lack of documentation from IBM as to what the results mean exactly and how solid they are.
Well, in a sense, most of us all only know each other through our comments, and that's all we can ever base an assessment like this on. By proxy we have to assume that when people's inner thoughts leak out into the Internet on a forum like this (and in a sustained enough way to make them a top-100 karma earner) that their aggregate corpus of comments will be a reasonable insight into who they are. So for all purposes…
I got a similar feeling from this - that's why I'd love to see some hard data behind the algorithm, or at least bits and pieces about the methodology used to arrive upon it.
I think that IBM Watson expects a general text no? I admit to having done some personality classification on OKC profiles (around 200) and found that disproportionately to the average population, there were a lot of people that were classified as caring, helpful, social, popular individuals. It fits the medium. Just like one would expect HN comments to be full of more "head-y" discussions.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2013/05/ec...
I'd assume that this might be the same algorithm, but I'm not really sure of that.