• Buffalox@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    The headline is clearly false, you can’t tell political affiliation just by looking at a persons face.
    Maybe in USA you have a slightly better chance than random, because age and gender alone will give a statistical difference. But the claim of the headline remains false.

    The claim of the headline is reiterated in the article:

    A study recently published in the peer-reviewed American Psychologist journal claims that a combination of facial recognition and artificial intelligence technology can accurately assess a person’s political orientation by simply looking at that person’s blank, expressionless face.

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    So, according to this theory, if you have a tiny face, you’re probably a progressive. Or, by contrast, if you have a big fat face, there’s a good chance you might be a Trump voter.

    This simply can’t be true, if it was the attempt at a Phrenology/Craniology science would have detected it 200 years ago.

    • Eager Eagle@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      100% a response to the headline, which clearly must be false

      It is, my bad - I thought that was obvious. The headline and the article conclusion contradict the study itself, it’s just clickbait.

      But the study is not invalid because of it.