Imagine that you are on a social network or even a dating site and you are trying to find people who share the same interests as you. Usually these sites have some fields where you can specify your interest, indicate which books or movies you like, etc. If the site has a good algorithm, it might look for optimal alignment between your interest profile and that of others to identify potential friends or associates. However, not everyone takes the time to complete such questionnaires, and due to this lack of accurate information, the results may be less good than expected.

However, there are other sites, where people make electronic collections of their interests, such as tumblr, stumble upon Y interest. interest is a very interesting site to determine someone’s psychological profile. Us interest people make collections of images (including images with text attached) of topics that interest or like them. This is great for psychological profiling as it gives a great overview of all the interests in different categories that a person might have.

Yew interest It could be improved and improved in its functionality so that you can compare the degree of overlap in the pins you have with another person, in principle you could find people who share a maximum of interests with you and who could be potential friends.

In fact, you interest collection is in a way your meme card. Memes are elements of sets of beliefs, behaviors, and ideas that are typical of a certain cultural group and that can be easily spread among people. Religions for example are very strong meme groups or shared souvenirs. But also political or sports affiliation can make you belong to a certain group of memes.

Each category of idea typical of such group of memes can be called a meme, in analogy with a gene.

HAS Memorandum then it can be considered as the complete set of memes of a subject in analogy with a complete genome.

In genetics, if you want to determine the degree of similarity (homology or identity) between two organisms, you perform gene sequence alignment.

In analogy, an algorithm might perform a “same alignment” protocol on interest. Each image shared by two different people can get a score. In fact, the image functions like a nucleotide in a gene.

interest You could improve that algorithm by creating standard categories in a cache (users are not forced to use these standard categories). A complete set of images belonging to a given category could establish a given meme. The degree of completeness of a given meme could also be weighted by attributing a score in the alignment protocol.

Therefore interest could be improved to generate a meme profile for each “pinner” with a certain similarity score to other people. It is likely that people with high similarity scores to your profile also have images, which you as a user will like, and which you can add to further complete your collections.

Also, you may come across people who share a large number of views and interests with you, who are likely to be potential friends.

The term “meme lineup” is known in the gaming industry in a slightly different sense: players choose which “meme” they want to belong to (for example, “bad” or “good”). But you interest The profile, in fact, shows what type of meme you belong to if such an algorithm could be added.

Notably, just as modern genetics has been enhanced by epigenetics (corresponding to molecular modifications such as methylation of certain nucleotides), pins contain epimemetic information in the form of comments that can be added by the pinner. While re-pinning someone else’s pin, you can’t change the picture, you can change the comments that go with it. Just as epigenetic information is not necessarily inherited, epimemetic the information need not be inherited either.

This interest-the type of memetic alignment for psychological profiling can not only find application on dating sites or social networks; You may also find an application in psychology or recruiting. It can actually give a more nuanced reflection of someone’s character than the traditional DISC red, yellow, green, blue typing (developed by W. Marston) used in corporate organizations with a management culture.

As a recruitment or psychological test, a person might be given a set of images and allowed to select and categorize them with a interest as a tool. This not only gives a good idea of ​​the subject’s preferences, but also shows the subject’s ability to categorize and create categories ontologically, as well as the speed with which such classification is achieved. Rather, such tools could provide young people with precise proposals for professions they might like in online profession tests.

It could even be used in criminology as an alternative to the famous rorschach inkblot test, in which subjects have to relate their perceptions regarding the inkblot they see.

In short, a memetic alignment tool based on similarities of iconic sets in a tool like interest has great potential in a variety of fields, from dating sites to criminology.