This online tool reveals your personality based on Facebook ‘likes’

“Please login with Facebook to submit your Facebook Likes to our prediction engine and view the output of the API.” reads the instruction on the Apply Magic Sauce website.

Reuters/Dado RuvicResearchers at the University of Cambridge created a tool that profiles people based on their Facebook likes.From “likes” to pictures, we hand over a lot of personal data to Facebook. This model uses results of thousands of personality tests and approximately 6 million social media profiles to determine the personality of the user.

It also puts you on spectra for the “Big 5” personality traits of openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism.

The app can guess your gender, intelligence, sexual, political and religious preferences, life satisfaction, education and relationship status. These tell you, for example, wheter you are impulsive or organised, conservative or liberal and so on.

This is a tool from the researchers, rather than Facebook, but it shows the picture of you that the social network can build just based on your activity.

After the Facebook login is completed, the tool collects all the information required, and runs that “digital footprint” against the internal model developed by the University of Cambridge’s researchers.

You have to sign in to Facebook to take the test but the service only looks at the liked pages on your account.

For instance, Fb already has your gender particulars, exercise, identify, relationship standing and so forth.

Apply Special Sauce is free and was primarily made to showcase the Cambridge university’s expertise in data crunching.

You will be requested to log in by way of Fb. Most of the information returned is displayed as percentiles (which means it may not be reflective of you specifically, but fits your overall psycho-demographic).