Posted on 01/14/2021 7:40:56 PM PST by algore
I take it you don’t really do data?
(And they are claiming accuracy only two-thirds of the time.)
Well, now they will just scan your face and determine for you if you go to re-education or are removed. Great.
Yes, I saw that. I mean the study of ethnicity and race itself has been deemed off-limits. James Watson was “canceled” for his research into racial differences, amongst others. The authors of the Bell Curve were said to be beyond the pale for their research and the resulting book. There are others, it’s been a couple of years since I was reading about this so don’t remember all the names of the researchers who were told to back off from this research.
I've re-read the excerpt, and realize now that I had initially misunderstood the meaning of the sentence "Accuracy remained high (69%) even when controlling for age, gender, and ethnicity."
I realize now that the author means that efforts were undertaken to ensure that the A.I. program compensated for facial features tied to age, gender, or ethnicity.
After all, it would prove little if the program simply determined the melanin content of the individual subjects and decided, on that basis, that a dark-complexioned person was a "liberal."
Rather, efforts were made to filter out the effects of age, gender, and ethnicity, so that characteristic facial features associated with, e.g., Blacks would not be used to automatically sort that person into the "liberal" category.
Indeed, it would be far more interesting to learn about the non-age-related, non-gender-related, and non-ethnicity-related facial features indicative of conservative or liberal leanings.
A firm jaw - and hence conservative?
A dazed expression - and therefore liberal?
Do Blue-Dog Democrats have, e.g., a shifty expression?
Do Antifa supporters have "lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eyes"?
THAT would indeed be very interesting to discover!
Regards,
Being able to tell one’s leanings by the shape or features of their face?
That sounds VERY much like the Nazis’ racial profiles of ‘how to tell if one is a Jew’. As I recall, there were posters with pictures of Jewish people so people could spot other Jews.
This crap is just sick.
Yes, learning what factors other than those assumed by conventional wisdom -age, race, etc-to indicate particular political leanings one way or another would be interesting. It would also be interesting to learn the accuracy rate.
There haven’t been any criminal proceedings involving juries in my county since last March. No civil trials either. I can’t understand how they will catch up.
I respect science, but I don’t think there is any such thing as ‘pure’ science.
They often get things very wrong, for a variety of reasons.
It’s probably because I don’t judge people before I get to know them, their circumstances, education level, etc.; I’m pretty interested in almost everyone I meet; and I don’t mouth-off about my beliefs and opinions in gatherings where others may think very differently. (That would be a horrible way to find out anything really true about another person. All it does is set up a reactionary wall.)
I’m fine setting up a reactionary wall. I do “mouth off” about my political beliefs, as my ancestors did. I don’t judge people before I get to know them, though.
My problem with setting up ‘the wall’ is that it cuts you out of the opportunity to influence them, as they get to know you better.
People are touchy; not many of us are big enough to get over our initial reactions to offense and investigate further.
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