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by mytype 16y ago
No, fans of Fight Club on Facebook are much less conformist than other people on Facebook. If you actually read the article and came to this conclusion then either I'm a bad writer or you're a bad reader.
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by mytype 16y ago
It's very awesome. My favorite find of the last several months, if not year. I'm curious, what are you going to do with it?
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by mytype 16y ago
My best interpretation: The fan profile shows that Fight Club is particularly appealing to the 18-30 crowd (makes sense). It's also a smart film. Most people who like it are either a poor college/postgraduate student or a professional mak
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by mytype 16y ago
We have a lot of Facebook profile info and psychology survey data, going to write some fun, OkCupid-style posts with it. If anyone wants to get involved, let me know at tim [at] mytype.com. We handle a lot of the messy stuff already (data
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by mytype 16y ago
We have not just Facebook movie data but obviously books, music and lots of other good stuff. Lots of relationships to explore between "likes" and personality, values, morals, which we plan to do on our blog, in the style of OkCupid. If a
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by mytype 16y ago
This leak doesn't really provide information on what the government is doing. They are low level reports written from the field, largely recognized by people working in this space to be unreliable. The government should certainly be more op
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by mytype 16y ago
Yes, it's a biased sample. I've already admitted that. My point is that it's not egregiously more biased than any other sample from academia or professional surveyors, and in many cases it's less biased. Do you reject most academic psycho
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by mytype 16y ago
We focused on the 11% and 3% slices, yes. But from there we looked for the most over-represented groups. The fact that the independent geeks and selfish elites are 3 and 6 times more prominent in those slices is statistically significant,
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by mytype 16y ago
The study is getting top-of-front page coverage right now from wired.com
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by mytype 16y ago
There's two explanations for that difference: 1) Forrestor's 3.8% was collected in June 2010, whereas our data was collected from March through May. Clearly the iPad is gaining momentum, as time goes on more people are planning to buy one
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by mytype 16y ago
This certainly would be a good point if it were true. In reality people come to MyType to take a personality quiz. We just randomly inserted the iPad question into the personality quiz for 20,000 people. They're not particularly savvy on
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by mytype 16y ago
I'm the author of the post. Admittedly I got into some speculation in the post, and I tried to frame it as such, not as unequivocal facts "proven" by the data. The only thing that's solid is the data. There are a number of interpretation
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by mytype 16y ago
Our sampling rigor cannot be compared to political polls, it's true. However we do weight the sample not based on guesses but on official data about the gender, age, and personality distribution in the US. We did not use geographic weight