You Are What You Like

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

I was reading this Cracked article (found here) and one of the entries was about an algorithm that is able to figure out a bunch of your personality traits based on just your "Likes". It was developed by a joint Cambridge and Microsoft team that made a paper about it (which you can read here). It's a pretty neat thing but honestly besides music stuff I haven't liked much of anything on Bookface for a while. I gave it a go and here are the results based on my likes:

My Openness is

52% Liberal and Artistic as opposed to 48% Conservative and Traditional

My Conscientiousness is

63% Spontaneous and Flexible as opposed to 37% Well Organized

My Extraversion is

71% Shy and Reserved as opposed to 29% Active and Outgoing

My Agreeableness is

80% Assertive and Competitive as opposed to 20% Warm, Trusting and Cooperative

My Neuroticism is

93% Calm and Relaxed as opposed to 7% Emotional and stressed

Now I consider myself way more liberal and artistic than that shows. I think the spontaneity thing is pretty right on. The weird one for me is most people consider me pretty outgoing and charismatic whereas I actually prefer to keep to myself, so it's kind of weird that it pegged me for an introvert. I've always felt like an introvert inside an extroverts body haha. And I def agree that I'm usually calm and relaxed but when I do get set off I tend to go nuclear.

But those were my results and I'm curious to see if it works as well for the rest of you. Just go the website and log into it with your Bookface and it will analyze the result and you can post them here as well as share with your friends.

Here is the website:

www.youarewhatyoulike.com

I look forward to seeing your results!

 

[Howlett]

Clickbait nonsense survey.

 

[Greens]

I gave up on liking things because the pages would just fill my wall with useless spam.

Good predictors of male homosexuality included “No H8 Campaign,” “Mac Cosmetics,” and “Wicked The Musical,” whereas strong predictors of male heterosexuality included “Wu-Tang Clan,” “Shaq,” and “Being Confused After Waking Up From Naps.”

How on Earth do naps correlate to sexual orientation? I would chalk that one up to coincidence.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Clickbait nonsense survey.

Haha you couldn't be more wrong. This is not a survey, it analyzes your likes and I highly doubt the people at Cambridge university care anything about clicks.

I gave up on liking things because the pages would just fill my wall with useless spam.



How on Earth do naps correlate to sexual orientation? I would chalk that one up to coincidence.

Well you would need to read the actual paper to get insights on things like naps but it was all done with a ton of research.

 

[Godzilla2000]

I'm not good at this whole Facebook thing apparently.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Here is another one you can try from the same article, this one is analyzed by Watson from IBM.

http://watson-um-demo.mybluemix.net/

I loaded up all my last tweets until I hit 1000 words and this is what it said about me:

You are a bit compulsive.

You are content: you are content with your level of accomplishment and do not feel the need to set ambitious goals. You are intermittent: you have a hard time sticking with difficult tasks for a long period of time. And you are self-conscious: you are sensitive about what others might be thinking about you.

Your choices are driven by a desire for discovery.

You consider independence to guide a large part of what you do: you like to set your own goals to decide how to best achieve them. You are relatively unconcerned with tradition: you care more about making your own path than following what others have done.

It gives you a whole breakdown of everything as well. Pretty cool

 

[Godzilla2000]

Here is another one you can try from the same article, this one is analyzed by Watson from IBM.

http://watson-um-demo.mybluemix.net/

You are inner-directed and skeptical.

You are empathetic: you feel what others feel and are compassionate towards them. You are independent: you have a strong desire to have time to yourself. And you are laid-back: you appreciate a relaxed pace in life.

Your choices are driven by a desire for efficiency.

You are relatively unconcerned with tradition: you care more about making your own path than following what others have done. You consider independence to guide a large part of what you do: you like to set your own goals to decide how to best achieve them.

Yep, this is more or less me.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

What did you use for it to analyze G2K?

 

[Godzilla2000]

What did you use for it to analyze G2K?

A PM reply from these very boards.

I used various posts and got this as well:

You are a bit compulsive, explosive and can be perceived as verbose.

You are melancholy: you think quite often about the things you are unhappy about. You are laid-back: you appreciate a relaxed pace in life. And you are intermittent: you have a hard time sticking with difficult tasks for a long period of time.

Your choices are driven by a desire for self-expression.

You are relatively unconcerned with taking pleasure in life: you prefer activities with a purpose greater than just personal enjoyment. You consider helping others to guide a large part of what you do: you think it is important to take care of the people around you.

 

[Howlett]

Haha you couldn't be more wrong. This is not a survey, it analyzes your likes and I highly doubt the people at Cambridge university care anything about clicks.
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If that were true, why is it online and why did you ever see it? Its a joke. It's as relevant as Facebook astrology tests or "what superhero are you?" surveys.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

If that were true, why is it online and why did you ever see it? Its a joke. It's as relevant as Facebook astrology tests or "what superhero are you?" surveys.

Do you even read what people post before you make your asinine comments? I'm sure the guys over at Cambridge University wrote a complex algorithm and did a research paper (which is clearly linked to in my first post) to get your click.

 

[Apollo]

Liberal and Artistic - 71%
Conservative & Traditional - 29%
Well Organized - 67%
Spontaneous and Flexible - 33%
Shy and Reserved 78%
Outgoing and Active - 22%
Warm, Trusting and Cooperative - 89%
Assertive and Competitive - 11%
Calm and Relaxed - 92%
Emotional and Stressed - 8%

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

How do you feel about that assessment, do you think it's accurate at all Apollo?

 

[Sawyer]

Percentages - 0%
Things other than this thread - 99%
This thread - 1%

And that's just because I'm in it right now.

 

[ComicChick]

cambridge or not, you're not going to tell me who i am or what i like just cuz i clicked a button. i could click any Like buttons on any pages to fudge the results. i doubt the legitimacy of this period.

just another way to further enmesh fb into people's lives. no thanks

 

[Maximus One]

I've liked over 11,000 things on Facebook over the years. I wonder if that would confuse it at all.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

cambridge or not, you're not going to tell me who i am or what i like just cuz i clicked a button. i could click any Like buttons on any pages to fudge the results. i doubt the legitimacy of this period.

just another way to further enmesh fb into people's lives. no thanks

Well this is assuming you only like things that mean something to you. I'm sure if your the kind of person that goes around liking everything it won't be as accurate. And feel free to read the paper they wrote explaining why it is so accurate

 

[ComicChick]

it doesn't interest me so i won't be reading the paper. and i am not too fond of facebook, so i don't really Like anything as it is

anyone who Likes something, they don't like, will have inaccuracies. some companies make you Like their pages to get coupons, or Like this to see this content etc etc.

 

[Guts]

I noticed that the friends that I have the most in common with are the ones that I hang out with now opposed to the ones that I used to know in high school.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

That's cool

 

[Apollo]

I guess so.. I haven't really liked anything on facebook in some time. I think some of my likes are pages my friends created and I liked them just to support them, even though I don't really care much about the pages content.

Then there are other things I like personally but I don't go out of my way and like them on my facebook page

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

I'm in the same boat, haven't liked a ton of stuff besides music stuff in a long while

 

[Maximus One]

I just see stuff and if it's something I have even the most remote interest in I hit like. I dunno. It's kinda compulsive at this point. I don't even really realize I do it some times.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Well try the site and see if you feel it's an accurate representation of you

 

[Maximus One]

I did it a while ago. Said a lot of things that were pretty spot on. Said I was in my late teens or early 20's, I'm 31 lol. Said stuff like I don't have faith in myself although I should and I'm just trying to figure out life and some such nonsense. It's been a while since I did it.