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0 pointsmrtksn8y ago0 comments

Okay, any idea how this website was able to search by IQ?

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danso8y ago· 3 in thread

No idea. But IQ is not a data point in FB’s system. So likely it’s a data field that’s part of some game/app?

According to this article Facebook can estimate user's IQ: https://www.ft.com/content/3dfa397c-9a73-11e4-8426-00144feab...

Do you think that this could be a FB data point as the creator of the archive claims to have had a deal with Facebook to scrape data?

danso8y ago

I can’t read past the paywall. But you read a newspaper article in which someone (who? A FB official? An academic?) claims FB can derive something from user data? That’s something literally anyone can try to do. Doesn’t have to involve FB officially.

mrtksnOP8y ago

Sure, but I would love to see what FB derives from their wast data and userbase.

feelin_googley8y ago

"Prior to April of 2008, Plaintiffs had written the first Survey, Petition, Polling, Quizzes and IQ Test applications to appear on Facebook and ranked as one of the largest Facebook application developers in the world."

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http://www.techfirm.com/storage/ProfileFacebookComplaint.pdf

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5 comments · 2 top-level

danso8y ago· 3 in thread

No idea. But IQ is not a data point in FB’s system. So likely it’s a data field that’s part of some game/app?

mrtksnOP8y ago

According to this article Facebook can estimate user's IQ: https://www.ft.com/content/3dfa397c-9a73-11e4-8426-00144feab...

Do you think that this could be a FB data point as the creator of the archive claims to have had a deal with Facebook to scrape data?

danso8y ago

I can’t read past the paywall. But you read a newspaper article in which someone (who? A FB official? An academic?) claims FB can derive something from user data? That’s something literally anyone can try to do. Doesn’t have to involve FB officially.

mrtksnOP8y ago

Sure, but I would love to see what FB derives from their wast data and userbase.

feelin_googley8y ago

"Prior to April of 2008, Plaintiffs had written the first Survey, Petition, Polling, Quizzes and IQ Test applications to appear on Facebook and ranked as one of the largest Facebook application developers in the world."

Source:

http://www.techfirm.com/storage/ProfileFacebookComplaint.pdf

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