Well what comes around, goes around or such. I remember during my studies (Literature, Culture and such) to having read of methodologies used in the 18th centur

Well what comes around, goes around or such. I remember during my studies (Literature, Culture and such) to having read of methodologies used in the 18th century to detect criminals by their physiological features. On person doing these studies was for example Francis Galton (who by the way did quite a mix of things from eugenics to statistics and "the wisdom of the crowd")[1]. Lots of things, coming from the old times into the modern times like Physignomy [2] that was also used for racial identification/discrimination in the 20th century. Have fun walking deeper into that rabbit hole of history. What I take from that is, that bad ideas never die, even if science was able to debunk them. Or as @thechao already said: > Alternately: criminal prosecution is targeted at people who "look like" criminals; thus, the NN is just selecting those people we think look like criminals, rather than any inherent criminality. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Galton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Galton [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physiognomy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physiognomy [Edit] Formatting