Posted on 09/11/2017 2:37:48 PM PDT by Ennis85
A facial recognition experiment that claims to be able to distinguish between gay and heterosexual people has sparked a row between its creators and two leading LGBT rights groups. The Stanford University study claims its software recognises facial features relating to sexual orientation that are not perceived by human observers. The work has been accused of being "dangerous" and "junk science". But the scientists involved say these are "knee-jerk" reactions. Details of the peer-reviewed project are due to be published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
For their study, the researchers trained an algorithm using the photos of more than 14,000 white Americans taken from a dating website. They used between one and five of each person's pictures and took people's sexuality as self-reported on the dating site. The researchers said the resulting software appeared to be able to distinguish between gay and heterosexual men and women. In one test, when the algorithm was presented with two photos where one picture was definitely of a gay man and the other heterosexual, it was able to determine which was which 81% of the time. With women, the figure was 71%. "Gay faces tended to be gender atypical," the researchers said. "Gay men had narrower jaws and longer noses, while lesbians had larger jaws." But their software did not perform as well in other situations, including a test in which it was given photos of 70 gay men and 930 heterosexual men. When asked to pick 100 men "most likely to be gay" it missed 23 of them. In its summary of the study, the Economist - which was first to report the research - pointed to several "limitations" including a concentration on white Americans and the use of dating site pictures, which were "likely to be particularly revealing of
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Re #7:
You win.
But if it identifies people who support the U.S. Constitution, I’m thinking they’d be just fine with it.
Liberals are insane. They claim that gay people are “born that way” and then they denounce evidence that would lead to prove them right.
Crazy.
Poppycock
Dan Lipinski, Democratic Party, Illinois, United States House of Representatives
Men doing “Duck Face” is a dead giveaway? Who wouldu thunk?
Given the high percentages of gays who are HIV+, and the expense of treatment, any company looking to lower their health costs would do well by excluding high-risk potential employees, while maintaining deniability of the real reason.
LOL! Who is that?
Ok, now take the photos of 10,000 gay men and women and compare them. Then you will go from having an “anecdote” to having what we like to call “data”.
Why are they so upset? I thought they were proud to be twisted.
Q1: Does it work?
Q2: If it does, what’s the problem?
Aren’t all gays now completely out of the closet?
Except for Dorkbama, of course.
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I doubt it.
Apparently this gaydar software is 20Xs more accurate than Climate Change modeling software.
“Teh ghey gene” isn’t in the nose or jawline.
People can pick a gay face from a set of pictures about 60% of the time, when the pictures are half of gays and half of straights, so "gaydar" isn't totally a myth.
But if only 3% or 5% of the population is gay and people are seeing gay faces all over the place, it means that there are a lot of false positives, enough to call the idea into question. Source
Also, people become homosexual for different reasons and that may mean that they have different kinds of faces.
Gacy, though, has that kind of face because of his Slavic ancestry. Ethnicity has a way of messing up algorithms like this one.
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