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Firstly, the researchers seem to have a cracker jack box understanding of the fields they're claiming to upend, what with claiming PHT is widely accepted. Secon
by jolux 9y ago
Firstly, the researchers seem to have a cracker jack box understanding of the fields they're claiming to upend, what with claiming PHT is widely accepted. Secondly, it's not clear to me that they controlled for enough variables and only doing it on white people is strange. It could really be that gay people use better photos, who knows.
They're claiming to be able to detect gay people but it seems like the system has to be coaxed very carefully into doing that and seems very limited. They built a purposefully inflammatory tech demo that seems to do more to betray their distance from the topic they're studying than it does bolster their reputation. At least from my perspective.
- Bromskloss 9y ago> Secondly, it's not clear to me that they controlled for enough variables and only doing it on white people is strange. It could really be that gay people use better photos, who knows. Are these two sentences meant to be related to each other, or am I misreading your comment?
- jolux 9y agoNo that's a bit confusing. They were meant to be totally unrelated.
- xupybd 9y agoSo if I understand correctly the problem is not in what they attempted to do, it's that they didn't do it properly. Because they did this incorrectly the results they claim are not conclusive and given the inflammatory nature of the study they should be more careful with their claims?
- jolux 9y agoBasically yes. Also if the point was to show that "AI" or whatever can be used for nefarious ends I think there are better ways of doing it. I have a feeling they were looking for better results than they got.
- mirimir 9y ago> ... only doing it on white people is strange. According to the article, they found few profiles of non-white homosexuals.
- jolux 9y agoI know what they said the reason was, it doesn't make it less strange.
- mirimir 9y agoIt's not at all strange, for the researchers. If there's too little data, there's nothing to be done. But maybe it's strange that there are so few profiles by non-white homosexuals. It's a cultural thing, I suspect.
- YeGoblynQueenne 9y agoWell, if you don't have enough data for the experiment you want to make, then you don't make the experiment. Not make the experiment and then note that "btw, don't call us out on our poor data, it's not our fault, we tried our best". Especially so if you're perfectly aware of how controversial your study may be considered.