Instagram photos reveal predictive markers of depression
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Instagram photos reveal predictive markers of depression
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#2TL;DR - If you post a lot of gray pictures of yourself with a sad face that nobody likes or comments on, you are probably depressed.
They used the color of the photographs, number of people in the photos, level of engagement, and happiness rated by Mechanical Turk to determine depression.
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#3And in 10 years, this will be a part of your Citizen Score.
I should burn this nickname and be more diligent about persona management. Or get off social media entirely.
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#4We used ML and assumptions like: "Group photos are an indicator of happiness" to guess if a person is depressed.
God help the millennials. The only winning move is not to play.
Re: Instagram photos reveal predictive markers of depression
#5We used ML and assumptions like: "Group photos are an indicator of happiness" to guess if a person is depressed. God help the millennials. The only winning move is not to play.
They didn't use that as an indicator of depression. All they did was pass into the model the number of faces in the frame. The analysis afterwards suggested that depressed people tend to not have group photos.
Re: Instagram photos reveal predictive markers of depression
#6We used ML and assumptions like: "Group photos are an indicator of happiness" to guess if a person is depressed. God help the millennials. The only winning move is not to play.
They didn't use that as an indicator of depression. All they did was pass into the model the number of faces in the frame. The analysis afterwards suggested that depressed people tend to not have group photos.
Shit, I don't have group photos :(
Re: Instagram photos reveal predictive markers of depression
#7TL;DR - If you post a lot of gray pictures of yourself with a sad face that nobody likes or comments on, you are probably depressed. They used the color of the photographs, number of people in the photos, level of engagement, and happiness rated by Mechanical Turk to determine depression.
"The more comments Instagram posts received, the more likely they were posted by depressed participants"
Re: Instagram photos reveal predictive markers of depression
#8TL;DR - If you post a lot of gray pictures of yourself with a sad face that nobody likes or comments on, you are probably depressed. They used the color of the photographs, number of people in the photos, level of engagement, and happiness rated by Mechanical Turk to determine depression.
"The more comments Instagram posts received, the more likely they were posted by depressed participants"
In general I call this the Magarshak score:
How many comments vs shares does a content post have?
Comments - disagree with it, want to correct something, controversy
Shares - agree with it, want to spread it more widely, echo chamber
Re: Instagram photos reveal predictive markers of depression
#9We used ML and assumptions like: "Group photos are an indicator of happiness" to guess if a person is depressed. God help the millennials. The only winning move is not to play.
They didn't use that as an indicator of depression. All they did was pass into the model the number of faces in the frame. The analysis afterwards suggested that depressed people tend to not have group photos.
Well doh
People who don't hang out with other people are more at risk for depression AND they are less likely to have group photos.
This is called a latent variable.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
"The more comments Instagram posts received, the more likely they were posted by depressed participants"
In general I call this the Magarshak score: How many comments vs shares does a content post have? Comments - disagree with it, want to correct something, controversy Shares - agree with it, want to spread it more widely, echo chamber
Wouldn't that be the Magarshak ratio?