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This isn't a study that shows that people's faces indicate their political leanings. It's a study which shows that pictures that people select to represent themselves publicly have features that indicate political leaning.
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There's evidence of inheritability of political orientation, since it is tied to personality traits. Given that, it makes sense that it is possible to predict political orientation through looks alone. After all, looks are also inherited traits. The article gets into this a little bit. They are able to predict traits like intelligence and honesty by looks alone.
I think this is a very dangerous line of study. I can easily see these results getting used to forward racism and other appearance based discrimination.
- Steve Pinker
> Their facial images were obtained from their profiles on Facebook or a popular dating website So, this seems to be doing profile picture recognition, not facial recognition. It's not like they're saying there are physical features in your face that give away your political affiliation - that is to say, putting two people's bodies under the same photographic conditions would probably not create this kind of signal.…
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> Differences among people do not make them more United and their bonds stronger. Literally the opposite is true I tend to agree. It's why I find all of the recent "Diversity is our strength" stuff so puzzling. I'm not against diversity, I just recognize that it generally results in at least some interpersonal challenges to overcome, not necessarily unity.
Sic transit "E pluribus unum"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_pluribus_unum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melting_pot
In practice, the multicultural empire was greatly weakened by incessant nationalist bickering.
Once you have to declare that X is your strength or something similar, it most likely isn't.
> Their facial images were obtained from their profiles on Facebook or a popular dating website So, this seems to be doing profile picture recognition, not facial recognition. It's not like they're saying there are physical features in your face that give away your political affiliation - that is to say, putting two people's bodies under the same photographic conditions would probably not create this kind of signal.…
> images were tightly cropped around the face and resized to 224 × 224 pixels
I assume there's no way to actually verify how someone may choose to vote, assuming there's no record of that? I think there's huge value now that everything is being sent into a "machine" or "the algorithm" in fucking with it. Order sex toys from Amazon, show them you're into outrageous books and fool them into creating a fake profile of "you", based on your spending, browsing and other data you generate. I'd love t…
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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...
From the article: > Accuracy remained high (69%) even when controlling for age, gender, and ethnicity.
I want a facial recognition tool that tells me what information I am leaking. We need a haveibeenpwned for facial recognition.