Facebook ‘Likes’ Reveal a Lot, Study Finds

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Facebook ‘Likes’ Reveal a Lot, Study Finds

11:05 13/03/2013 What you like on Facebook says a lot about you and can even give away your secrets, according to a Cambridge University study published online. In the study, researchers reveal how they were able to accurately guess the gender, personality type, IQ, political views and the sexual orientation of individuals based on what these 58,000 users of the popular social network decided to “like” on Facebook.>>

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