Students use Facebook to predict who's gay

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<p>The gist of the article is that analysis of information on Facebook or similar social networking sites can be used by an expert system to make inferences about individuals. Those inferences can include a wide variety of potential conclusions; this particular application is used to predict whether an individual is gay.</p>

<p>[Project</a> ‘Gaydar’: An MIT experiment raises new questions about online privacy - The Boston Globe](<a href=“http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2009/09/20/project_gaydar_an_mit_experiment_raises_new_questions_about_online_privacy/]Project”>http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2009/09/20/project_gaydar_an_mit_experiment_raises_new_questions_about_online_privacy/)</p>

<p>Kei</p>

<p>P.S. Those who don’t read the MSM should ignore this thread :-)</p>

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<p>This is what is passing for research at MIT these days?</p>

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<p>This takes an MIT student to figure out?</p>

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<p>Oh my goodness, Donna, you got me with that one. I woke up my puppy!</p>