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> If it turns out deep learning really can reliably predict things about people's personality from their faces, that doesn't make it a pseudoscience. What make
by 12_throw_away 2y ago
> If it turns out deep learning really can reliably predict things about people's personality from their faces, that doesn't make it a pseudoscience.
What makes it pseudoscience is that it's not theory-driven. These are statistical models that recapitulate distributions in their training data. It's Brian-Wansink-style p-hacking [1] at a massive scale.
[1] https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/9/19/17879102/brian-wansink-cornell-food-brand-lab-retractions-jama https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/9/19/17879102/br...
- naasking 2y ago> What makes it pseudoscience is that it's not theory-driven Science is primarily empirical, and there's nothing inherently wrong with an effective theory that works, until we find a better, principled theory. > It's Brian-Wansink-style p-hacking [1] at a massive scale. Sometimes. Models that generalize are in fact generating theories though.