Keynote: Digital Psychometrics and it's Future Effects on Technology
summary
Claims that psychometric models built from Facebook and phone data can predict Big Five traits and intelligence at 0.5 to 0.6 correlation, trained on a 7 million user database with about 3.5 million consented profiles via the Apply Magic Sauce API. Public reports allege use on 220 million US citizens with 175,000 ad variants. Validation shows ~10 likes beat a coworker, ~65 beat a friend, ~250 beat a spouse; an A/B campaign yields 6 million impressions, ~10,000 clicks and ~400 purchases, and phone sensors flag depression risk.
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chapters (21)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:45New stories
- 1:57What is psychometric
- 3:12Digital metrics
- 3:45Personal websites
- 4:14Apply Magic Sauce
- 4:54Predict My Profile
- 6:35How does it work
- 7:34The dataset
- 9:25The word cloud
- 10:27The word agreeableness
- 12:02The latest development
- 13:04How accurate is it
- 15:30Question
- 15:53The Trump Story
- 17:17Healthcare
- 18:10Facebook
- 19:28Future of Digital Psychometrics
- 20:24Lucy Kay
- 21:05Most of our life
- 21:26Conclusion
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