AI Can Tell Your Political Affiliation by Your Face

[Dave Schwartz]

Wow.


AI Can Tell Your Political Affiliation Just by Looking at Your Face, Researchers Find

Prior to this experiment, researchers studied the “differences between average facial outlines” of the “most liberal and most conservative males and females” and integrated this research into their analysis. According to this analysis—and, I have to warn you, it’s kinda funny—liberals and conservatives have markedly different facial morphology. Liberals have “smaller lower faces” and “lips and noses [that] are shifted downward,” and chins that “are smaller” than conservatives, researchers write. Researchers repeat the key conclusion later on: “liberals tended to have smaller faces.”

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. Face/head is destiny, apparently. Researchers justify this assessment by pointing to the ways in which social expectations relative to physical appearances can influence personality development:

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...facial appearance can shape psychological traits...People largely agree when judging political orientation from faces (Todorov et al., 2015). Regardless of whether such judgments are accurate, the self-fulfilling prophecy effect (Merton, 1936) postulates that people perceived as having a particular attribute are treated accordingly; internalize such attributions; and, over time, may engage in behaviors consistent with others’ perceptions (Slepian & Ames, 2016). For example, people with larger jaws, often perceived as more socially dominant (a trait associated with political conservatism), might over time become more so.

NOW FOR THE GOOD NEWS...
Yes, I buried the lede.

One reply claimed that he actually read the study and the follow up test in the real world (i.e. not a backfit) had a correlation of a whopping 13%!

LOL

[Tom]

Demorat...democrat...democrat