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Sorry (even as i am tempted to do this quiz), but ... <paranoia mode on> Is this sponsored by (the defunct) Cambridge Analytica or some similar entity ? Isn'

Sorry (even as i am tempted to do this quiz), but ... <paranoia mode on> Is this sponsored by (the defunct) Cambridge Analytica or some similar entity ? Isn't this exactly how many of those companies operate ?

dwd 8y ago
It doesn't ask for any personal details to complete it. Seemed accurate enough as the result I got correlated closely with one I did I few years back that was definitely more intrusive but eye-opening. Someone setup a crawler that would take your HN comments and pass them to Watson's personality insights. I was brutally honest just now and the results were the same.
- BoiledCabbage 8y ago
  Including Google or FB advertising id?
- m463 8y ago
  There are a lot of tracking links on that page. It is THE perfect behavioral tracking info to attach to someone's online advertising profiles.
  - dwd 8y ago
    That would require them to be specifically tracking this questionnaire for that purpose and filing the results against your profile or shadow profile. As I noted, it is possible to derive a reasonably accurate profile simply from the language a person uses, so if you're on Facebook, or use GMail they have enough data passing through their servers to profile you anyway. Technology like this: https://personality-insights-demo.ng.bluemix.net/ https://personality-insights-demo.ng.bluemix.net/