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A nice example of more humane design aimed at developers, but I fear it'd make a mess of what would otherwise be nicely ordered lists.

The "women are wonderful effect" seems plausible, but I found the original study [1] and was disappointed to see that the generalization "people associate more positive attributes with women compared to men" came from a sample of 322 college students (probably all from Purdue, the authors' institution).

Makes me think of a quote from that fantastic paper, "The Weirdest People in the World" [2]:

> Commonly, there is no demographic information about the participants, aside from their age and gender. In recent years there is a trend to qualify some findings with disclaimers such as “at least within Western culture,” though there remains a robust tendency to generalize to the species. Arnett (2008) notes that psychologists would surely bristle if journals were renamed to more accurately reflect the nature of their samples (e.g., Journal of Personality and Social Psychology of American Undergraduate Psychology Students). They would bristle, presumably, because they believe that their findings generalize much beyond this sample.

[1] PDF link: https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED322418.pdf

[2] PDF link: http://hci.ucsd.edu/102b/readings/WeirdestPeople.pdf

Every time I see facial recognition tech I think, "Isn't this actually pretty dangerous technology?" It's a cool DYI project, but also _wow_ that in 2018 this is a DYI project.