A new peer-reviewed study says that facial recognition technology can accurately "read" a person's political affiliation just by looking at their face.
The headline is clearly false, you can’t tell political affiliation just by looking at a persons face.
Maybe in USA you have a slightly better chance than random, because age and gender alone will give a statistical difference. But the claim of the headline remains false.
The claim of the headline is reiterated in the article:
A study recently published in the peer-reviewed American Psychologist journal claims that a combination of facial recognition and artificial intelligence technology can accurately assess a person’s political orientation by simply looking at that person’s blank, expressionless face.
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So, according to this theory, if you have a tiny face, you’re probably a progressive. Or, by contrast, if you have a big fat face, there’s a good chance you might be a Trump voter.
This simply can’t be true, if it was the attempt at a Phrenology/Craniology science would have detected it 200 years ago.
Who defines political orientation as a property of the brain? It’s socially established.
So is crime, ultimately both stem from a sense of self interest vs right and wrong, or lack of it.
idk what Phrenology or crime have anything to do with the study and I’m yet to see an argument for it
The headline is clearly false, you can’t tell political affiliation just by looking at a persons face.
Maybe in USA you have a slightly better chance than random, because age and gender alone will give a statistical difference. But the claim of the headline remains false.
The claim of the headline is reiterated in the article:
Further down:
This simply can’t be true, if it was the attempt at a Phrenology/Craniology science would have detected it 200 years ago.
It is, my bad - I thought that was obvious. The headline and the article conclusion contradict the study itself, it’s just clickbait.
But the study is not invalid because of it.