Re:New AI can guess a person's sexual orientation from a pho...
by YeGoblynQueenne on Friday September 08, 2017 @09:03PM
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>> How is this any more offensive or unlikely than stuff like digit ratio research?
It is offensive in the sense that it seems to assume that gay men are less masculine than straight men. Why would that be the case?
Not to mention that, in practice, the vast majority of gay men are not effeminate.
>> This proves a biological origin for sexuality.
A claim in a paper never "proves" anything. In this case we're talking about a paper on sociology that presents a machine learning model so it's even less likely to prove anything about biology.
>> Lastly do you have any actual argument against the papers methodology?
There should be a law about requesting "arguments" and name-dropping "methodology" on the internet. Something like Godwin's law. Along the lines of: "When an online discussion reaches the point where someone mentions the word 'argument' it's time for everyone to go home".
It is offensive in the sense that it seems to assume that gay men are less masculine than straight men. Why would that be the case?
Not to mention that, in practice, the vast majority of gay men are not effeminate.
>> This proves a biological origin for sexuality.
A claim in a paper never "proves" anything. In this case we're talking about a paper on sociology that presents a machine learning model so it's even less likely to prove anything about biology.
>> Lastly do you have any actual argument against the papers methodology?
There should be a law about requesting "arguments" and name-dropping "methodology" on the internet. Something like Godwin's law. Along the lines of: "When an online discussion reaches the point where someone mentions the word 'argument' it's time for everyone to go home".