MIT Experiment: Predicting Sexuality Based On Facebook Friends
source: http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2009/09/20/project_gaydar_an_mit_experiment...
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Using data from the social network Facebook, they made a striking discovery: just by looking at a person's online friends, they could predict whether the person was gay. They did this with a software program that looked at the gender and sexuality of a person's friends and, using statistical analysis, made a prediction.
At MIT, an experiment identifies which students are gay, raising new questions about online privacy
At MIT, an experiment identifies which students are gay, raising new questions about online privacy
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