Facial recognition can predict person’s political orientation with 72% accuracy

Re:Facial recognition can predict person’s political orienta... by simias on Friday March 05, 2021 @11:25AM (#26358626)

72% is a very significant deviation from 50% though, I wasn't expecting such a result.

>The highest predictive power was afforded by head orientation (58%), followed by emotional expression (57%). Liberals tended to face the camera more directly, were more likely to express surprise, and less likely to express disgust.

Emotional expression makes some sense in hindsight but I wouldn't have though that head orientation would correlate. It's interesting to know how we betray ourselves with these minute details of body language.

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Re:Facial recognition can predict person’s political orienta... by rsynnott on Friday March 05, 2021 @01:25PM (#26360091)

Though, these seems a bit odd; how many people are expressing _disgust_ in dating profiles?

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Re:Facial recognition can predict person’s political orienta... by Applejinx on Friday March 05, 2021 @04:24PM (#26362301)

Those categorizations are opposites on a continuum of various kinds of muscle tension, notably brow scrunch muscles. Surprise is literally brow up and jaw slack, disgust involves brow scrunch and lip tightening. Facial expressions also bleed through to our experienced emotions, so going around with face scrunched a lot will MAKE you more suspicious and disgusted with things.

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