wraggster
August 15th, 2012, 02:33
Apparently we can diagnose you as depressed if the mechanics of your internet use fit certain patterns (http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=what-internet-habits-say-about-mental-health). By using a cleverly embedded questionnaire that classifies the subject as depressed, and by using existing net usage data collection to collect features (variables), researchers at the Missouri University of Science and Technology were able to correctly predict the diagnoses of the questionnaire using the net usage data (http://web.mst.edu/~chellaps/papers/12_tech-soc_kcmwl.pdf) (PDF). I wonder if this could be a new Firefox plug-in, designed to help parents detect depression in their adolescents by tracking the mechanics (not the sites) and automatically emailing them if their ward is showing increasing signs of depression."
-- yeah right , ive suffered and still suffer from severe stress and depression and theres no way you can detect it by how i browse
-- yeah right , ive suffered and still suffer from severe stress and depression and theres no way you can detect it by how i browse