What an Introvert Sounds Like
The World Well-Being Project uses Facebook updates to correlate language with personality traits.
by Olga Khazan
Aug 18, 2014
2 minutes
Do our Facebook posts reflect our true personalities? Incrementally, probably not. But in aggregate, the things we say on social media paint a fairly accurate portrait of our inner selves. A team of University of Pennsylvania scientists is using Facebook status updates to find commonalities in the words used by different ages, genders, and even psyches.
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