Acid test
Does it confirm that Marmite-lovers also lack all sense of taste and smell?
Does it confirm that IE users smell of wee?
Can it estimate shoe size from photos?
Liking Jennifer Lopez will get you more Facebook friends than Iron Maiden, straight men like professional wrestling more often than they like Glee, and Mormons are more agreeable than fans of Timmy from South Park. That's just a grab-bag from research just published at the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, …
Exactly, all stuff for the "Scientists Now Know" corner of Annals of Improbable Research, home of the Ig Nobel prizes (and the judges will be spoiled for choice (again)).
..come on , what do you define your '00 etc version of "rocking out" as? Iron Maiden had/has talent, more than the current pop fuck-wads do today.......God damn it.. I just realised this is the definition of old!! Fine I hate all you guys...etc. grrr , lucky I need to work etc...
It seems that a lot of people don't have a specific fb account they use to try to get free stuff.
Why would you "like" anything?
I suppose the point of the story is not the correlation engine - I could guess that most wrestling fans are probably not gay, or that people who are fond of in-your-face behaviour have tend not to have as many relationships as those who like JLo. The point is that its probably quite opaque to most users what "liking" something actually does. It is presented as an analogy to exclaiming "I like it" while at your computer, but that isn't what's happening at all.
On the plus side, the correlation results appear to be so inane as to be relatively harmless.
Maybe that's the cunning plan...
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This is one reason why I don't ever use the "like" button - not that I use FB all that much anyway, never post & just read other's updates every week or so.
But it would be interesting to know how they would categorise me if I DID use the "like" button, with interests as varied as miniature poodles, cars, cricket, ancient history, american football, paintball, horses......
... are to use the results of this study to make a FB assessor utility (maybe on a website) where you give it your FB user name and it will tell you the results of analysing your 'Likes'. Then, the FB spin-doctor utility can be introduced: this will modify your Likes to give you the analysis results that you want to present to the world.
Eventually, everybody on FB will disappear up their own backside as they spiral down the rabbit hole of analysis and modification.
This is an excellent idea for people who have foolishly used Facebook before realising how evil it is; a profile sanitiser. But there is no risk to their revenues; there are enough deluded people out there who think that "liking" some brand or celebrity somehow validates their pointless, hollow existence to keep Facebook going for quite a while.
Paris, because she exactly exemplifies what all this is about.
But
Young man says you are what you eat - eat well.
Old man says you are what you wear - wear well.
You know what you are, you don't give a damn;
Bursting your belt that is your homemade sham.
Also
I know what I like, and I like what I know;
getting better in your wardrobe, stepping one beyond your show.
How many friends will that make me on Facepuke?