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I find this fascinating, with no intention to start a political battle, how might somebody’s biology influence their political leanings?
It’s pretty well established that age, gender, and skin color are correlated with one’s voting habits. Here are some stats: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/10/26/what-the-20...
> Accuracy remained high (69%) even when controlling for age, gender, and ethnicity.
I find this fascinating, with no intention to start a political battle, how might somebody’s biology influence their political leanings?
Skin color. Features resulting from inbreeding. Features due to your gender. Features resulting from gender change.
This sounds more like people who are from minority groups (or who look like they are, to a computer vision algorithm) are more likely to agree with left-leaning policies, which probably has more to do with the policies in those countries than it does with any sort of genetic features. I feel like this might not work as well in non-Western countries, for example.
What's a useful application of this, other than more advertising?
Not sure I’m entirely comfortable with that.
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Dating app that constrains to like minded potential partners, instead of relying on political signaling in profiles.
More echo chamber...
> Accuracy was similar across countries (the U.S., Canada, and the UK) This sounds more like people who are from minority groups (or who look like they are, to a computer vision algorithm) are more likely to agree with left-leaning policies, which probably has more to do with the policies in those countries than it does with any sort of genetic features. I feel like this might not work as well in non-Western countrie…