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People who post ‘God’ and ‘pray’ on Facebook are more likely to develop these...conditions
MarketWatch ^ | 06/18/2019 | James Wellemeyer

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 ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet
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To: KDF48
In that vein, all church goers will also die one day. And not all will get to the same next chapter.

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?

41 posted on 06/19/2019 3:01:18 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: Fedora

You’re right, correlation is not causation. It’s a basic rule of statistics that seems to have been forgotten.


42 posted on 06/19/2019 3:12:21 AM PDT by mongrel
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To: BenLurkin

The minions of Satan who run Facebook suffer burns and itches when God and prayer are mentioned...they are trying to deter it...


43 posted on 06/19/2019 4:41:49 AM PDT by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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To: a fool in paradise

People who post “cannabis” are most likely to be unemployed.


44 posted on 06/19/2019 4:44:41 AM PDT by Fido969 (In!)
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To: Flick Lives
Using Facebook causes depression

My hypothesis - Unhealthy people (medical and/or mental) use Facebook more than healthy people.



45 posted on 06/19/2019 5:18:13 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Kill-googl,TWTR,FCBK,NYT,WaPo,Hlwd,CNN,NFL,BLM,CAIR,Antfa,SPLC,ESPN,NPR,NBA,ARP)
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To: caww

Now that is smug.


46 posted on 06/19/2019 5:23:30 AM PDT by FamiliarFace
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To: BenLurkin

https://centerfordigitalhealth.upenn.edu/people

Only 4 of the 15 on the Digital Health team are men.


47 posted on 06/19/2019 5:23:48 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Kill-googl,TWTR,FCBK,NYT,WaPo,Hlwd,CNN,NFL,BLM,CAIR,Antfa,SPLC,ESPN,NPR,NBA,ARP)
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To: caww; All
The authors a kid.....

He just wrote the article. He isn't on the Penn team.



48 posted on 06/19/2019 5:27:51 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Kill-googl,TWTR,FCBK,NYT,WaPo,Hlwd,CNN,NFL,BLM,CAIR,Antfa,SPLC,ESPN,NPR,NBA,ARP)
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To: BenLurkin
Analyzing social-media posts presents obvious privacy concerns, but the ability to _____________ or ___________ could save ___________________.

Fill in the blanks.

The ends always justifies the means for tyrants and puritans.

Essentially, screw privacy!

49 posted on 06/19/2019 5:35:59 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (The media is after us. Trump's just in the way.)
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To: BenLurkin

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?


50 posted on 06/19/2019 5:38:35 AM PDT by dangus
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To: BenLurkin

Hasn’t Market Watch always been a Left-wing activist site posing as financial news?


51 posted on 06/19/2019 5:55:21 AM PDT by Bishop_Malachi (Liberal Socialism - A philosophy which advocates spreading a low standard of living equally.)
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To: RoosterRedux

Dopamine dump in the brain. Very powerful reinforcement....so I have heard.


52 posted on 06/19/2019 7:09:03 AM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
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To: BenLurkin

Correlation and causation - confusing medical science for decades.


53 posted on 06/19/2019 7:18:53 AM PDT by MortMan (Americans are a people increasingly separated by our connectivity.)
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To: Getready
Absolutely.

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.

54 posted on 06/19/2019 7:20:17 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: BenLurkin

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.


55 posted on 06/19/2019 10:03:43 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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To: BenLurkin

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.


56 posted on 06/19/2019 7:03:36 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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