I don’t know about this one, but last time the people were random. I have no doubt that their faces were closer to an “ideal” demographic makeup (according to some marketing people) than the reality, but it is not obvious looking just at one picture.
Re:WWDC21
by throwaway894345 on Monday May 24, 2021 @06:41PM
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Fair enough. I could be over-extrapolating.
FWIW I think a random selection among a list of representative faces is a good way of solving the problem.
Re:WWDC21
by throwaway894345 on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @02:17PM
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Agreed. I also like the yellow-emoji option--use something that clearly has no race.
Except yellow skin has been historically used to describe Asians. Maybe purple or neon green could have been used to steer definitely clear of that.
Re:WWDC21
by throwaway894345 on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @04:53PM
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If someone is tenuously making the "yellow emojis are actually asians" argument, they're certainly acting in bad faith, but I guess bad faith is what got us here in the first place. I find myself pretty unwilling to accommodate bad faith, especially because by definition bad faith will always make increasingly ridiculous demands.
Of course, there's the possibility that I'm reading too much into Apple's intent based on this one sample. If we wanted to be more certain we would have to do a more robust analysis.