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professor who says facial recognition ​​can tell if you're gay

Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2018 12:19 am
by Fuzzy Necromancer
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ ... ?CMP=fb_gu

He also claims it can discover politics, IQ, maybe even prediliction to commit certain crimes.

So basically a hip new way of presenting physiognomy and eugenics.

Re: professor who says facial recognition ​​can tell if you're gay

Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2018 1:48 am
by Worffan101
Another self-aggrandizing hack gets media attention by saying something idiotic very loudly.

News at 11.

Re: professor who says facial recognition ​​can tell if you're gay

Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2018 2:44 am
by Deledrius
Fuzzy Necromancer wrote: Fri Sep 28, 2018 12:19 am So basically a hip new way of presenting physiognomy and eugenics.
Worffan101 wrote: Fri Sep 28, 2018 1:48 am Another self-aggrandizing hack gets media attention by saying something idiotic very loudly.
Basically. Unfortunately a lot of "science" reporting is viewed as fluff pieces, and credulity never even seems to be a factor on whether to run the story and how to treat the claims it makes.

Re: professor who says facial recognition ​​can tell if you're gay

Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2018 3:54 pm
by Antiboyscout
Facial recognition No. Body-language Yes.

I think the average person somewhere around 70% accurate in determining if someone is gay based solely on how they sit in a chair.

Re: professor who says facial recognition ​​can tell if you're gay

Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2018 4:36 am
by Fuzzy Necromancer
Antiboyscout wrote: Sat Sep 29, 2018 3:54 pm Facial recognition No. Body-language Yes.

I think the average person somewhere around 70% accurate in determining if someone is gay based solely on how they sit in a chair.
You're just...gonna say that. You're really owning those words? That's something you typed and posted, without being coerced, in the Year of Somebody's Lord 2018?

You honestly believe the thing you said?

Re: professor who says facial recognition ​​can tell if you're gay

Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2018 5:03 am
by Antiboyscout
Fuzzy Necromancer wrote: Sun Sep 30, 2018 4:36 am
Antiboyscout wrote: Sat Sep 29, 2018 3:54 pm Facial recognition No. Body-language Yes.

I think the average person somewhere around 70% accurate in determining if someone is gay based solely on how they sit in a chair.
You're just...gonna say that. You're really owning those words? That's something you typed and posted, without being coerced, in the Year of Somebody's Lord 2018?

You honestly believe the thing you said?
My memory was a bit off so here are some sources

https://kinseyinstitute.org/news-events ... gaydar.php
"Most gaydar studies are set up so that participants would be correct 50% of the time were they to rely on chance guessing. Participants typically do quite a bit better than this, though, with average accuracy rates in the range of 62-64%"

Starting at the 7:00 minute mark

youtu.be/b5iEnZt2t7k

aprox. 80% accuracy

Re: professor who says facial recognition ​​can tell if you're gay

Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2018 11:19 pm
by Madner Kami
Nah, it's impossible to deduce someone's inner workings by observing his or her behaviour. After all, if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it most certainly must be a goose :roll:

Re: professor who says facial recognition ​​can tell if you're gay

Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2018 11:33 pm
by Worffan101
I usually sit in a chair with my legs crossed and my hands in my lap, and rarely if ever talk about sports. Does that make me gay?

Seriously, the only kind of behavior that can tell you someone's gay for sure is if they are visibly hitting on another dude. That's...that's how sexuality works, you guys.

Re: professor who says facial recognition ​​can tell if you're gay

Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2018 12:38 am
by Fuzzy Necromancer
If it was possible to tell who is gay just by the way they sit, I assure you, a lot more of us would have been murdered by our parents or peers by now.

Re: professor who says facial recognition ​​can tell if you're gay

Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2018 12:45 am
by Antiboyscout
Worffan101 wrote: Mon Oct 01, 2018 11:33 pm I usually sit in a chair with my legs crossed and my hands in my lap, and rarely if ever talk about sports. Does that make me gay?

Seriously, the only kind of behavior that can tell you someone's gay for sure is if they are visibly hitting on another dude. That's...that's how sexuality works, you guys.
60-80% accuracy
It's at least better than a guess