None. Someday, some company will build and sell a tool that actually does that, and it will be hella privacy invasive. Actually, it'll probably just be another invasive feature added to the Ray Ban perv glasses.
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another thing: I think most people answering here aren't thinking about how it would feel to have the statistic they're choosing over their own heads.
They have this already. We're just not privy to what they gather from the masses.
Times they told the truth.
If it's objective truth, sweet! Motherload I can asking anyone the a question to the secrets of the universe and know whether they're wild guess was true!
If it's subjective truth, also useful, but you know just lies or ignorance detector
Percentage on how likely someone is to be caught if they were murdered along with the coordinates of that location 48 hours from current time.
Just for curiosity.
Or maybe what everyone else said about farts or something
Number of days since they finished reading a book.
I don't like this one. I read all of the time but I'm a very slow reader. I tend to fall asleep when I read at night.
Or! Last 5 books they read.
You could cheese this by picking a statistic for something like "likelihood to agree if asked for a favor". I'm not going to stress over the wording on how to make it most useful, but something like that could be interesting.
Or something like "amount of undiagnosed cancers" if you want to save people.
This reminds me of this animated YT video in which timers are displayed above peoples' heads that show the amount of seconds passed since that person last shit their pants: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/WgbI5orsSMY
Over night, social hierarchies are upturned, respect is earned and lost based on that number.
Their name.
Ugh I'm horrible with names, maybe a picture of their face also.
Though on a more serious note, a picture of the last hairstyle you saw them with could be helpful.
Lol. Yeah, also horrible with names. But I'm great with faces. It sucks so bad because I'll always recognize someone but won't remember their name so I'll avoid them. I'm sure it's impacted how people think of me. And don't even ask about the time I took my wife's advice and asked a girl her name when she approached and talked to me.
How many people's livelihood can be affected by their decision.
Happiness.
Number of hugs
I was going to hold back on this one, but then i read the comments section:
Willingness to give head on a scale of 1-100. the Stat could have different color codes though, so I could "at a glance" some further info. (like bright red means they probably have an STI, regardless of the number, or lavender over a woman means she prefers "tacos" if you catch my meaning, dark green could mean they are down with little convincing, you know, "that sort of thing.")
I'm expecting to confirm my suspicions that the numbers are not as high as the spicy sites would have you believe.
Dinner with your parents is awkward when your dad has a higher number than your mom.
Human or Not Human
No need for that because by definition it's only displayed above people's heads. You can tell someone isn't human if nothing is displayed over them.
Lifetime Intrusive thoughts counter
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Unquantifiable using any sort of objective metric
You forgot
- horny
Number of times they've lied
It would be hard to count lies by omission which is a key data point in someone's honesty I feel
True but if I care about something I will directly ask tbh. People have burned me hard with lies by omission.
came to say this. You talking to someone and that metric is going up. Nice to know. To bad its just in person.
Quality of Life impact: How much damage (or benefit) their actions (work, lifestyle, whatever) have done for the net quality of life across the globe. I figure anyone who drives to work is probably doing a little more harm than good, but perhaps they make up for it by being a good school teacher or something, whereas AI coders might make things worse ... but mostly I'd like to see if ANY world leaders score in the positive.
So basically The Good Place’s score system.
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blood sugar
Last time they had sex
lifetime number of orgasms
"Wait, wasn't your number just 753,494? Why is it a 5 now? You've been sitting right here the whole... Oh no. Now it's a 6? Why"
"Say 'whole' again..."
Their net benefit (or harm) to humanity; measured in QALYs.
A generalization on the crimes score, but it also tells me who to befriend. I'm not a utilitarian, but it still seems like helpful data.
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