Sue, I found the TweetPsych site interesting. Some of what I found out about myself I can quickly verify as true, such as "You often talk about school and learning.", but what does this mean: "You tweet about your various senses often."? Some of the profile statements remind me of those demonstrations where students are given a "personality profile" and asked how true they think it is of them - and everyone has actually received the exact same "profile". Here's a statement from my profile that fits that bill, "You express plenty of positive emotions". Who would disagree with that?
Here's my prediction: these Twitter "profiles" will be used in the future to select roommates for incoming college students. What the heck: at least we'd finally be rid of the Myers Briggs (though with something that's probably just as innaccurate). Michael [email protected] www.thepsychfiles.com On Jun 21, 2009, at 11:29 AM, Frantz, Sue wrote: > > For the those who use Twitter: http://tweetpsych.com/ > > “TweetPsych uses two linguistic analysis algorithms (RID and LIWC) > to build a psychological profile of a person based on the content of > their tweets. The service analyzes your last 1000 tweets and works > best on users who have posted more than 1000 updates. It also works > best on accounts that are operated by a single user and use Twitter > in a conversational manner, rather than simply a content > distribution platform.” > > I doubt they’ve done validity studies, but it’s an interesting idea… > if one does not go beyond the data. > > -- > Sue Frantz Highline > Community College > Psychology, Coordinator Des Moines, WA > 206.878.3710 x3404 [email protected] > > Office of Teaching Resources in Psychology, Associate Director > Project Syllabus > APA Division 2: Society for the Teaching of Psychology > > APA's p...@cc Committee > > > > --- > To make changes to your subscription contact: > > Bill Southerly ([email protected]) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([email protected])
