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> These self-selected, naturalistic images combine many potential cues to political orientation, ranging from facial expression and self-presentation to facial
by motohagiography 6y ago
> These self-selected, naturalistic images combine many potential cues to political orientation, ranging from facial expression and self-presentation to facial morphology.
I was going to ask how they controlled for the presence of compound bows & deer, trucks, and tank tops in the photos, but this implies they did not. Another one would be lighting palette, since that's going to be biased to regions as well.
There is something to be said for it, as I'd say I have a %72 chance of guessing someones political orientation by looking at them as well, which someone once explained to me as being the effect of testosterone levels on the region around their eyes, but that sounded like folksy bro science.
- ralusek 6y agoI was going to ask the same about colored hair, facial asymmetry, hammer and sickles on shirts, and scowls.
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- bigwavedave 6y ago> I was going to ask how they controlled for the presence of compound bows & deer, trucks, and tank tops in the photos, but this implies they did not. Another one would be lighting palette No need to read into implications. From TFA: "The procedure is presented in Fig. 1: To minimize the role of the background and non-facial features, images were tightly cropped around the face and resized to 224 × 224 pixels." While tightly cropping the face isn't perfect, it does address three of the four things you were specifically wondering about.