Comments on: Personality traits predict online behavior https://partnews.mit.edu/2015/03/10/personality-traits-predict-online-behavior/ Treating newsgathering as an engineering problem... since 2012! Wed, 11 Mar 2015 05:35:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2 By: Alexis https://partnews.mit.edu/2015/03/10/personality-traits-predict-online-behavior/#comment-100887 Wed, 11 Mar 2015 05:35:17 +0000 http://partnews.brownbag.me/?p=6356#comment-100887 Sarah, this is really nice. I like that you dispute a specific claim, but also point out the general problem of interpreting correlation as causation, which is a recurring problem when people report on scientific studies. I agree with you that it is an often deliberate mistake in order to make snappy headlines…

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