Monday, August 8, 2011
Custom sections directory - Google News
Custom sections directory - Google News
Google offers me an "add section in searches. It lists categories that I am interested in...
Google Alerts - Monitor the Web for interesting new content
Google Alerts - Monitor the Web for interesting new content
08.08.2011 in beta set up alert for google malware
Saturday, August 6, 2011
Google Log 8.06.2011
Google I am now using Google Chrome with the following extensions: "Blog This!"
1. GC has a Task Manager that reveals background pages and the memory that they are consuming. This can be reached from tools. GC the browser is currently using 54,516K of memory and Blog this is using 19,576K.
2. At the bottom of the Task Manager is a Stats for nerds link. I am going to click it and see what I get: This link takes me to a tab that further breaks down memory by tabs that are opened and if you are running more than one browser it shows you the memory use of each browser. It also shows virtual memory and memory breakdown. It show private memory and shared memory use for programs run and browser use.
Saturday, August 28, 2010
The blog entitled 'Sir Francis Galton' is a short history taken from Wikipedia explaing the research of Sir Francis Galton. This summarizes the behavior psychology upon which Google has built its Google Analytics Application. Sir Francis Galton was an accredited and reputable scientist. However, his robust research has been diluted to the point of barely qualifying as 'pop psychology'. Google is using a model called the 'Big Five' personality traits to predict and track Internet consumer behavior. It seems pure luck and sloppy research have reserved some personal privacy from the clutches of Google. The 'Big Five' is not even considered science in behavior and personality inventory. It does not predict behavior. However, it does a fantastic job of recording every key a computer user touches on a computer keyboard.
This seems a logical place to begin to unravel the personal data profile that Google will create for me regardless of my voluntary participation. I have chosen to participate so that I have some knowledge of what is going on with my personal information. Additionally, Google has a very interesting philosophy regarding software development. The term 'perpetual beta' describes it pretty well. Google applications don't really have an extremely specific function. Therefore it leave a lot of flexibility for the user to define the purpose of the application. That is a brilliant idea. Google will give you the tools to make what you want...in exchange for your identity.
This seems a logical place to begin to unravel the personal data profile that Google will create for me regardless of my voluntary participation. I have chosen to participate so that I have some knowledge of what is going on with my personal information. Additionally, Google has a very interesting philosophy regarding software development. The term 'perpetual beta' describes it pretty well. Google applications don't really have an extremely specific function. Therefore it leave a lot of flexibility for the user to define the purpose of the application. That is a brilliant idea. Google will give you the tools to make what you want...in exchange for your identity.
Friday, June 19, 2009
Sir Francis Galton
The scientific origin of the nonscientific Big Five...
Early trait research
Sir Francis Galton was the first scientist to recognize what is now known as the Lexical Hypothesis. This is the idea that the most salient and socially relevant personality differences in people’s lives will eventually become encoded into language. The hypothesis further suggests that by sampling language, it is possible to derive a comprehensive taxonomy of human personality traits.
In 1936, Gordon Allport and H. S. Odbert put this hypothesis into practice.[8] They worked through two of the most comprehensive dictionaries of the English language available at the time and extracted 17,953 personality-describing words. They then reduced this gigantic list to 4,504 adjectives which they believed were descriptive of observable and relatively permanent traits.
Raymond Cattell obtained the Allport-Odbert list in the 1940s, added terms obtained from psychological research, and then eliminated synonyms to reduce the total to 171.[9] He then asked subjects to rate people whom they knew by the adjectives on the list and analyzed their ratings. Cattell identified 35 major clusters of personality traits which he referred to as the "personality sphere." He and his associates then constructed personality tests for these traits. The data they obtained from these tests were analyzed with the emerging technology of computers combined with the statistical method of factor analysis. This resulted in sixteen major personality factors, which led to the development of the 16PF Personality Questionnaire.
In 1961, two Air Force researchers, Ernest Tupes and Raymond Christal analyzed personality data from eight large samples. Using Cattell's trait measures, they found five recurring factors.[10] This work was replicated by Warren Norman, who also found that five major factors were sufficient to account for a large set of personality data. Norman named these factors Surgency, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Emotional Stability, and Culture
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality
Early trait research
Sir Francis Galton was the first scientist to recognize what is now known as the Lexical Hypothesis. This is the idea that the most salient and socially relevant personality differences in people’s lives will eventually become encoded into language. The hypothesis further suggests that by sampling language, it is possible to derive a comprehensive taxonomy of human personality traits.
In 1936, Gordon Allport and H. S. Odbert put this hypothesis into practice.[8] They worked through two of the most comprehensive dictionaries of the English language available at the time and extracted 17,953 personality-describing words. They then reduced this gigantic list to 4,504 adjectives which they believed were descriptive of observable and relatively permanent traits.
Raymond Cattell obtained the Allport-Odbert list in the 1940s, added terms obtained from psychological research, and then eliminated synonyms to reduce the total to 171.[9] He then asked subjects to rate people whom they knew by the adjectives on the list and analyzed their ratings. Cattell identified 35 major clusters of personality traits which he referred to as the "personality sphere." He and his associates then constructed personality tests for these traits. The data they obtained from these tests were analyzed with the emerging technology of computers combined with the statistical method of factor analysis. This resulted in sixteen major personality factors, which led to the development of the 16PF Personality Questionnaire.
In 1961, two Air Force researchers, Ernest Tupes and Raymond Christal analyzed personality data from eight large samples. Using Cattell's trait measures, they found five recurring factors.[10] This work was replicated by Warren Norman, who also found that five major factors were sufficient to account for a large set of personality data. Norman named these factors Surgency, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Emotional Stability, and Culture
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality
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