On Monday 12 October 2009 09:54:05 VolodyA! V Anarhist wrote: > http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2009-09/gaydar-algorithm-outs-facebook-users > > A pair of MIT students claim that they have created an algorithm that outs > gay > members of Facebook by analyzing the sexual orientations of their networks of > friends. > > The students first analyzed the networks of people who publicized their > sexual > orientation on Facebook. Turns out that statistically speaking, gay men have > more gay friends than straight guys do. So then, they used an algorithm to > run > the stats on men who kept mum about their sexual orientation on the site. > Their > computer program was able to correctly identify 10 men whom the students > personally knew to be gay in the real world but who hadn't shared that fact > on > Facebook. (The algorithm didn't work as well with women or with bisexual > Facebookers.) > > [...] > > It'd be interesting if it's possible to make similar observations without > seeing > the whole map of the network, but only of the particular person. Regardless, > this is yet another reason to dislike WoT.
Only if WoT gives an option to publicly specify your sexual orientation! ;) And are you ranting against darknet here or only against chat/etc WoT apps?
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