https://twitter.com/baumard_nicolas/status/1308715606196342784 The thread and a different thread by someone else explaining why this is okay https://twitter.com/beausievers/status/1309486084485779457 Here is one selected quote,

They then ask a set of broader questions, something like "What are the relationships between trustworthiness displays, survey measures of trust, and other cultural/sociopolitical factors, including GDP?"

All of this is coming from an incredibly euro-centric perspective and it's something that is not addressed enough or clearly at all which just further complicates things when they explain it's not actually racist.

  • JoesFrackinJack [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    The first glaring flaw in their methodology is that their machine learning algorithm doesn’t actually predict the trustworthiness of the faces. What it does is predict the trustworthiness rating a white 1990-early 2000’s US college student would give that face, and it was trained on the ratings they’d give photos and cgi avatars, not portraits.

    Exactly what I was trying to say! Thank you. And the rest of what you wrote made much more sense of it than I could.