Comments on: If music recommenders were people

By: dirkler

dirkler — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:15:10 +0000

Men can absolutely have the same EQ as women. All I did was take the test and this is what it told me. Don’t shoot the messenger!

By: debcha

debcha — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 03:39:01 +0000

I don’t know – are you a robot?

By: bryon

bryon — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:35:14 +0000

Am I a robot? SQ = 86 Extreme Systemizing.

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:19:34 +0000

I wonder whether an individual’s EQ/SQ predilictions correlate with the EQ/SQ of the recommender they find useful, and if so whether directly or inversely. I tested with below average scores in both EQ and SQ (I am apparently oriented toward chaos and inanimate objects), but apparently weighted toward SQ. But I find the systematic recommenders like Pandora to be much less useable than more empathic ones.

By: debcha

debcha — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 01:33:40 +0000

Paul Lamere has jokingly said that he needs music recommenders because he doesn't have any friends. But even your music-loving friends are unlikely to sit at your side and hand-craft you a Pandora or Last.fm playlist. Nothing will ever supplant personal recommendations; all the electronic stuff will only augment it.

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 01:27:44 +0000

The results would probably wouldn’t be as good if a person recommended music. But who knows?

By: debcha

debcha — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:00:45 +0000

I made the link myself - I did a bunch of research on Cohen's work as part of my day job, so it's what hit me when I read the Pandora article.

By: Malte Max

Malte Max — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:56:34 +0000

Did you make the link to music yourself, or was it included in the research? I know Cohen’s stuff on autism, he is a leading figure in the area of the phenomenon Theory of Mind too.

dirkler, it sounds as if you mean that men can’t have the same EQ as women.

By: debcha

debcha — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:20:40 +0000

Thanks! It was meant to be at least a bit tongue-in-cheek. I read about Pandora in the NYT mag article and thought it sounded totally autistic.

By: dirkler

dirkler — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 04:19:55 +0000

Such a great link up between the human mind and the computer mind.
It seems inescapable because I believe these two things will only blend more and more as time goes on.
Sad? Not really. (seeing how all humans are spending more and more time of their lives interacting with computers)

I also took the time to measure my own EQ and SQ. I am SO empathizing.
Which didn’t jive with me being a male apparently…