Tweet Judgments

I’ve linked up Dolores Labs before (when they tackled The Trolley Problem). They do fun stuff employing the anonymous army at Amazon Mechanical Turk. Their latest is getting Turkers to judge twitterers on how smart vs. interesting they are.

P.S. From there, I happened to stumble on Cursebird, “a real-time feed of people swearing on Twitter”, and another DL project, FaceStat, where you can upload your photo and have random strangers make snap judgments on you. From here, a fairly amazing coincidence: I get almost no blog-generated e-mail, but within an hour of finding FaceStat I had an e-mail from a fellow who put up a similar, simpler site where you can have strangers guess your age based on your photo. Strangely addictive, and I suck at it. I’m usually off by six years or more.