Freaky Algorithm Can Look at Your Twitter and Tell If You’re a Dude or a Lady

Though a flake unexpended , it ’s not unheard of for a bozo to act to be a girl — or vice versa — on the internet . But researchersdeveloped a raw algorithmwhich analyzes the cognitive content of tweet and forebode a user ’s sexuality .

According to Fast Company , Researchers at the Mitre Corporation found a sample distribution base of substance abuser whose sex they were certain of , and then let their algorithm take to the woods through the tweet of those users . They ended up with a sample distribution bent that was 55 % female and 45 % male person . How well did the algorithm fare ?

The Mitre findings become intriguing , though , when the squad limited its analysis to tweet alone . By scan for patterns in all the tweet of a given user , Mitre ’s programme was able to guess the right gender 75.8 % of the sentence — a 20 % melioration over the service line . And even just by analyzing a individual tweet of a user , it was right 65.9 % of the clip — an over 10 % improvement over the service line .

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So exactly what does the algorithm do to reach such accuracy ? They used the concept of sociolinguistics , which look at differences in lecture between different groups of people , specifically , how they combine certain words and expressions together .

Mitre found that given certain fibre or combining of characters , the computer could wisely reckon on the gender of the tweeter . The simple fact of a tweet hold an exclamation crisscross or a smiley aspect meant that odds were a woman was tweeting , for instance .

What ’s more , is that when the algorithm also take care at the name , user name and bio of a Twitter user , prediction truth rose to 92.8 % . That said , the researchers were unforced to take that the data was skew since it only considered the social media acculturation when analyze talking to blueprint . [ Fast CompanyviaAtlantic Wire ]

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