PLOS ONE: Personality, Gender, and Age in the Language of Social Media: The Open-Vocabu... - 0 views
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Lisa Levinson on 03 Oct 13Interesting study using Facebook volunteers. The authors analyzed 700 million words, phrases and topic instances from Facebook messages of 75,000 volunteers who took standard personality tests, and found striking variations in language with personality, gender, age. Used an open-vocabulary technique where the data itself drives the exploration of language that found connections not captured with traditional methods. To date, this is the largest study, by order of magnitude, of language and personality. -
Lisa Levinson on 03 Oct 13Some interesting findings based on age and gender