{"id":6982,"date":"2017-02-07T11:06:23","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T03:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=6982"},"modified":"2017-02-07T11:06:23","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T03:06:23","slug":"the-data-that-turned-the-world-upside-down-motherboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2017\/02\/07\/the-data-that-turned-the-world-upside-down-motherboard\/","title":{"rendered":"The Data That Turned the World Upside Down &#8211; Motherboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The strength of their modeling was illustrated by how well it could predict a subject&#8217;s answers. Kosinski continued to work on the models incessantly: before long, he was able to evaluate a person better than the average work colleague, merely on the basis of ten Facebook &#8220;likes.&#8221; Seventy &#8220;likes&#8221; were enough to outdo what a person&#8217;s friends knew, 150 what their parents knew, and 300 &#8220;likes&#8221; what their partner knew. More &#8220;likes&#8221; could even surpass what a person thought they knew about themselves. On the day<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/how-our-likes-helped-trump-win\">The Data That Turned the World Upside Down &#8211; Motherboard<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The strength of their modeling was illustrated by how well it could predict a subject&#8217;s answers. Kosinski continued to work on the models incessantly: before long, he was able to evaluate a person better than the average work colleague, merely on the basis of ten Facebook &#8220;likes.&#8221; Seventy &#8220;likes&#8221; were enough to outdo what a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2017\/02\/07\/the-data-that-turned-the-world-upside-down-motherboard\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Data That Turned the World Upside Down &#8211; Motherboard&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}