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Machine learning of language use on Twitter reveals weak and non-specific predictions

2021-03-23

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<p>Background: Depressed individuals use language differently than healthy controls and it has been proposed that social media posts could therefore be used to identify depression. But much of the evidence behind this claim relies on indirect measures of mental health that are sometimes circular, such as statements of self-diagnosis (“Got an OCD diagnosis today”) on social media or membership in disorder-specific...

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10.31234/osf.io/rzx73
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