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Computers with digital footprints may know you better than friends: study

 

Computers using digital footprints such as Facebook Likes may judge your personality traits better than your friends, family and even your partner, a new study suggested Monday.

Researchers at the University of Cambridge and Stanford University describe the finding as an "emphatic demonstration" of the capacity of computers to discover an individual's psychological traits through pure data analysis.

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