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You may have thought you were happy going through life not having a clue what could be around the corner.
But if you had the chance to know how likely you are to get married, your life expectancy or even perhaps (warning: this is big), how likely you are to get murdered, you’d want to know… admit it.
Well, there’s a new web tool, aptly called Predictive World, that could come in quite handy.
To time in with the much-awaited release of hacker thriller Watch Dogs 2, the tool uses data from your Facebook account – such as your gender, area code and age – and it works out a whole host of statistics. So, you can discover just how much a cyber-system can predict about you using digital records of your behaviour. Yes, it sounds a little creepy…
The collaborative project from Cambridge University Psychometrics Centre, Sid Lee Paris and Ubisoft (the people behind Watch Dogs) can reveal everything from your burglary risk, to life expectancy to – that one thing we all want to know – your dancing style. Hands up if you’re “eclectic”…
You can click on each piece of data to find out how it has been scientifically calculated – for example, homicide risk (the probability of being murdered in the next 10 years) is based on your location. *gulps*
It also shows statistics to do with personality traits, things like intelligence, openness and conscientiousness.
All you have to do, FYI, is connect your Facebook page with the app – it doesn’t keep your data and won’t reveal to your newsfeed when you’re going to die, you’re all right – or you can do it the traditional way and simply answer a questionnaire.
You know you’re intrigued…
