To: M. Dodge Thomas
"generic" Hispanic face careful, some leftist might call you a racist now.
25 posted on
04/02/2004 8:28:28 AM PST by
MrB
To: MrB
The term isnt my coinage, forensic artists use it describes the fact that some sorts of forensic illustration work from a limited set of components, and absent the presence of distinguishing personal features tend to produce a "generic" rendering. That if you start with a description of a "Hispanic male in his twenties" but your observers offer no reports of facial hair, skin blemishes, scars tattoos, or the like, and no pronounced facial asymmetries or other outstanding facial features, such methods will tend to regress toward the mean (as it were) of a racial "type". This appeared to me to be such a result.
28 posted on
04/02/2004 8:55:42 AM PST by
M. Dodge Thomas
(More of the same, only with more zeros on the end.)
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