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

Re:Facial recognition can predict person’s political orienta... by 542354234235 on Friday March 05, 2021 @01:53PM (#26360460)

Simplistically, let’s take the above statistic “A randomly chosen black individual in the united states has a 72% chance of leaning democrat” at face value. So, a coin flip would be lower than 50-50 because someone of that race in that country does not have a 50 50 chance. So you would adjust the chance to 72-28 and compare that to the Facial recognition results. If you find that the results are the same, then you know that the Facial Recognition not picking up on anything beyond race. If the results are different, you know the FR is picking up on something in addition to race.

Really it is more complex than that, but fundamentally you try to say “how accurate can we be using just age, gender, and ethnicity” and use that as your controlled benchmark.

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Re:Facial recognition can predict person’s political orienta... by klmadfejno on Saturday March 06, 2021 @09:51AM (#26367700)

I understand what they're implying by "adjusted accuracy". My point is that I'm not sure that metric really makes sense, because "accuracy" isn't a particularly useful metric to begin with. It depends entirely on the sample distribution. "Always guess not fraud" will be 99.9% "accurate" for most use cases.

I'm asking what the literal metric is.

edit: and I don't think your explanation really works for accuracy, because accuracy isn't a relative measure, like, say, R2.

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