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Re:Facial recognition can predict person’s political orienta... by bryanlarsen on Friday March 05, 2021 @11:22AM (#26358592)
The humans are probably overthinking it. You get ~55% by assuming by answering "Biden" for everybody.
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Re:Facial recognition can predict person’s political orienta... by simiones on Friday March 05, 2021 @01:21PM (#26360035)
In fact, the dating site dataset was ~54% conservative according to their explanations of included data, but the point stands.
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Re:Facial recognition can predict person’s political orienta... by leereeves on Friday March 05, 2021 @11:47AM (#26358920)
According to Wikipedia only 51.3% voted for Biden/Harris.
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Re:Facial recognition can predict person’s political orienta... by relaxing on Friday March 05, 2021 @12:09PM (#26359165)
The dataset was not restricted to voters.
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Re:Facial recognition can predict person’s political orienta... by leereeves on Friday March 05, 2021 @02:26PM (#26360959)
Do you have data that includes non-voters? I haven't seen any; most polls are limited to voters.
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Re:Facial recognition can predict person’s political orienta... by standardUser on Friday March 05, 2021 @04:34PM (#26362410)
There were tons of national polls done for Trump's approval that included all adults (instead of likely or registered voters). Trump fared noticeably worse in the polls of all adults throughout his presidency.
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Re:Facial recognition can predict person’s political orienta... by leereeves on Friday March 05, 2021 @05:05PM (#26362743)
Approval isn't the same thing as preference among two choices. Trump received a considerably higher percentage of votes than his approval rating.
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