Personality-Predicting Eye Movements, a Mysterious Battery, and “English As She Is Spoke”

Curiosity Weekly

Warner Bros. Discovery

Self-improvement, Science, Astronomy, Education

4.6 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2018

⏱️ 8 minutes

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In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes:

The Way Your Eyes Move Can Predict Your Personality
This Hilarious English Phrasebook Has Been in Publication Since the 1800s
"English as She Is Spoke"
The Mysterious Battery That Has Lasted More Than 175 Years

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0:00.0	Hi, we've got three stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter in just a few minutes.
0:05.0	I'm Cody Gough.
0:06.0	And I'm Ashley Hamer.
0:07.0	Today, you learn how an algorithm can predict your personality based on how your eyes move.
0:11.0	We'll delve into a hilarious English phrase book from the 1800s and
0:15.2	we'll explore how a battery has been able to last more than 175 years.
0:20.1	Let's satisfy some curiosity.
0:21.7	Cody, do you know your Myers-Briggs type?
0:24.5	The personality test?
0:25.5	I've taken it, but I don't remember what it is.
0:28.5	That's okay because it's not actually based in science.
0:31.0	Right.
0:32.0	The only personality test that has really been supported by scientific literature is called
0:38.2	the Big Five model.
0:39.8	What are the Big Five?
0:40.8	Well, they are five personality traits. Those include openness,
0:44.9	conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. If you forget
0:50.4	just remember the acronym Ocean. Ocean, got it.
0:53.1	So anyway, in a new study, researchers
0:55.4	were able to use artificial intelligence
0:57.4	to predict at least four of those five personality traits
1:00.7	in individual people without them ever taking a test.
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