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Computers can be better at predicting our personality than our friends and family, an experiment with tens of thousands of volunteers has indicated.
By analysing "likes" on Facebook, a computer model deduced a person's character on five key traits better than brothers, mothers and even some partners.
The Cambridge team acknowledge that personality is more complex than this.
But they say the results show computers can outpace humans.
And the findings, in the journal PNAS, suggest some interesting associations - Facebook fans of Dr Who tend to be shy, while fans of Big Brother are conservative or conventional.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-30775401
By analysing "likes" on Facebook, a computer model deduced a person's character on five key traits better than brothers, mothers and even some partners.
The Cambridge team acknowledge that personality is more complex than this.
But they say the results show computers can outpace humans.
And the findings, in the journal PNAS, suggest some interesting associations - Facebook fans of Dr Who tend to be shy, while fans of Big Brother are conservative or conventional.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-30775401