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

Re:Facial recognition can predict person’s political orienta... by simiones on Friday March 05, 2021 @01:20PM (#26360027)

They explain: they tested predictions on pairs of faces of teh same gender, ethnicity and age. The result was 69% instead of 72% apparently.

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Re:Facial recognition can predict person’s political orienta... by klmadfejno on Saturday March 06, 2021 @10:00AM (#26367786)

Hmm, the actual phrasing is:

> The accuracy is expressed as AUC, or a fraction of correct guesses when distinguishing between all possible pairs of faces—one conservative and one liberal.

I've never seen something like this. Maybe this is a normal procedure?

But I would be worried that the number of old black conservative women would be really small. Seems a bit sketchy

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