By the posts posted by the person in Facebook, you can predict the future development of depression. The conclusion reached by researchers from the University of Pennsylvania in the United States.
The language used by people in the posts on the website Facebook, will help to predict future depression with the same degree of accuracy with which this can be done in a medical facility when conducting traditional surveys. Researchers from Pennsylvania believe that information in social networks has markers associated with the genome. Thus, analysis of posts on the Internet gives the same precise information as the analysis of the genome, of course, he’s not worth the money. In the future, it is possible, this analysis will be able to make computers that use samooborony artificial intelligence.
During their study, researchers analyzed information from nearly 1,200 people who regularly posts statuses on Facebook. In relation to these people there was also electronic medical history. Then trained a computer analyzed their status in order to determine them using certain words, expressions, grammar and other signs of people who can formally diagnose depression. Analyzing the social network activity of these participants for several months, the researchers were able to diagnose depression or to predict the development of this mental disorder with remarkable accuracy.
The algorithm of recognition of depression they have created based on over half a million posts in Facebook within a few years, people who have already had or discovered in the future depression. The same volume of posts was also analyzed in relation to people not experiencing depression, so that the computer can understand the difference. In the post depressed people often manifest the motives of loneliness, sadness, aggression and sombre reflection. (READ MORE)