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zslastman comments on Introducing Familiar, a quantified reasoning assistant (feedback sought!) - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: zslastman 24 July 2013 03:27:07PM 3 points [-]

Researchers in pharmacogenetics have recently discovered that they can get important cues about drug side effects using people's search histories - you might find for instance, that people who have either of two drugs in their search history have a certain frequency of searching for terms like 'drowsiness' or 'diabetes' but people who have both search for these terms with a greatly increased frequency.