Posted on 06/18/2019 9:48:12 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Facebook... posts may be able to predict whether someone will develop diabetes and other conditions including depression, anxiety, alcohol abuse, sexually-transmitted diseases, and drug abuse better than demographic information like age, sex, and race.
People who often use the words “God” and “pray” in their Facebook posts are 15 times more likely to develop Type 2 diabetes than people who rarely use those terms on the platform, a new study from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine finds.
Raina Merchant, the lead author of the study and the director of Penn Medicine’s Center for Digital Health, said she didn’t know exactly why “God” and “pray” were linked to diabetes.
Perhaps less surprisingly, the words “drink” and “bottle” predict alcohol abuse, and expletives suggest drug abuse. “Social media posts are often about someone’s lifestyle choices and experiences or how they’re feeling,” Merchant wrote.
Merchant’s team conducted a similar study last year and found that Facebook posts could predict a diagnosis of depression three months before the diagnosis at a clinic.
“It’s not surprising that someone who is depressed may be posting about their mood,” Merchant told MarketWatch in an interview. “But we have less knowledge of the language of, say, diabetes, so it’s something we wanted to look into.”
Merchant is hopeful that social-media posts could one day help doctors diagnose diseases like diabetes early or prevent them altogether, but there’s still more research to do before your doctor begins analyzing your status updates. Merchant plans to conduct a large study later this year that shares social-media information directly with health providers.
“There is so much data and we, as providers, aren’t trained to interpret it ourselves,”
Analyzing social-media posts presents obvious privacy concerns, but the ability to predict or prevent diabetes could save Americans a lot of money.
(Excerpt) Read more at marketwatch.com ...
My point is that many people sit in the pews each Sunday (and some stand behind the pulpit) that have not given their lives to the Lord. Their reasons for going to church each Sunday seem to include, among others, the pleasure of belonging to community service clubs.
BTW, what makes you think I haven't studied Isaiah 53 and John 17 carefully?
You’re right, correlation is not causation. It’s a basic rule of statistics that seems to have been forgotten.
The minions of Satan who run Facebook suffer burns and itches when God and prayer are mentioned...they are trying to deter it...
People who post “cannabis” are most likely to be unemployed.
My hypothesis - Unhealthy people (medical and/or mental) use Facebook more than healthy people.
Now that is smug.
https://centerfordigitalhealth.upenn.edu/people
Only 4 of the 15 on the Digital Health team are men.
He just wrote the article. He isn't on the Penn team.
Fill in the blanks.
The ends always justifies the means for tyrants and puritans.
Essentially, screw privacy!
Bizarrely conducted study. Mostly black mostly women mostly young. Why would you look for type 2 diabetes among people under 30? Someone that sick and that young asks for prayers? Is that what they really discovered?
Hasn’t Market Watch always been a Left-wing activist site posing as financial news?
Dopamine dump in the brain. Very powerful reinforcement....so I have heard.
Correlation and causation - confusing medical science for decades.
Bingeing on sugar (or carbohydrates which are converted to sugar once inside the body) produces a dopamine high the same way (or similar way) that drugs do.
It’s amazing more folks didn’t get sick before social media came on the scene. Sites like FussBook spread more illness than they cure.
As it has been clear for years: Facebook is one big psychological profile, with data points for every like, link, post, picture, or avatar.
And they use that to manipulate, both by articles and by presenting choices.
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