Broken a leg? You must love Madden

Caterina Fake's new Hunch service tries to puzzle out answers to your questions based on answers given by thousands of other users. Think of it like an Amazon recommendation, except it's not just suggesting what to buy, but who to love, what to eat for dinner, or whether or not you look good in plaid—and then cross-links the whole thing in one big database.

That mish-mash of data has allowed them to pull up some perpendicularly interesting data points, including this tiny gem that Offworld readers might find hits perhaps a little too close to home:

People who have broken a leg like video games such as Madden NFL 09 and NBA 2K9, whereas non-leg-breakers prefer Little Big Planet, Katamari Damacy, Super Mario Galaxy and World of Goo

I look forward to the conflation of causality and correlation from Hunch data (as I've done already in the title!) in the future.

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