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It's often been said that the eyes are the window to the soul, revealing what we think and how we feel. Now, new research reveals that your eyes may also be an indicator of your personality type, simply by the way they move.
Developed by the University of South Australia in partnership with the University of Stuttgart, Flinders University and the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Germany, the research uses state-of-the-art machine-learning algorithms to demonstrate a link between personality and eye movements.
Findings show that people's eye movements reveal whether they are sociable, conscientious or curious, with the algorithm software reliably recognising four of the Big Five personality traits: neuroticism, extroversion, agreeableness, and conscientiousness.
Researchers tracked the eye movements of 42 participants as they undertook everyday tasks around a university campus, and subsequently assessed their personality traits using well-established questionnaires.
UniSA's Dr Tobias Loetscher says the study provides new links between previously under-investigated eye movements and personality traits and delivers important insights for emerging fields of social signal processing and social robotics.
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by looorg on Monday July 30 2018, @01:48PM (1 child)
Does knowing you are observed change how and what you do? If I knew that I was being observed I'm fairly certain there are a lot of things I wouldn't do or refrain from doing and so that would probably skew the data.
Also this is clearly the new lazy trend in science "state-of-the-art machine-learning"; it's like full pot in the buzzword bingo of current science right there. A few years ago it was the gender perspective and today it's machine learning. If you can just somehow incorporate that into your "science" it seems like you are in for some serious grant money for whatever research project you could dream up.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 30 2018, @11:04PM
Or are scientists just exploring the use of new tools and trying to push the boundaries of what we know? Of course this article should be given some wide skepticism but that doesn't make it pointless or stupid.
If you're mad about the ridiculous amount of stupid research being done then maybe it'd be better to restructure society so we can have university professors who aren't required to "publish or perish". I mean really, how many great ideas can one person have? Gotta keep those PhD students researching too!! So we end up with a lot of questionable science.