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The Economist on using phrenology for hiring and lending decisions: "Some might argue that face-based analysis is more meritocratic" […] "For people without access to credit, that could be a blessing" (hexbear.net)
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screenshot of text "Imagine appearing for a job interview and, without saying a single word, being told that you are not getting the role because your face didn’t fit. You would assume discrimination, and might even contemplate litigation.But what if bias was not the reason? What if your face gave genuinely useful clues about your probable performance at work? That question is at the heart of a recent research"

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screenshot of text "a shorter one. Some might argue that face-based analysis is more meritocratic than processes which reward, say, educational attainment. Kelly Shue of the Yale School of Management, one of the new paper’s authors, says they are now looking at whether AI facial analysis can give lenders useful clues about a person’s propensity to repay loans. For people without access to credit, that could be a blessing."

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[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 42 points 4 months ago (2 children)

So Mr Guenzel and his co-authors used an algorithm to analyse the pictures of 96,000 MBA graduates, and extract what they call the “Photo Big Five”—as they rename the Big Five personality traits of agreeableness, conscientiousness, extraversion, neuroticism and openness.

The researchers were like, “Hey you know that WEIRD bias problem in psychology and sociology research? What if, instead of trying to negate it, we maximized it?”

[–] shallot@hexbear.net 45 points 4 months ago

MBA graduates

lol they wanted to see if they could caliper for “good at job” and they picked fucking MBAs lmao

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5089827

they don't have their own big five photos 😥

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Me when I smile slightly

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 18 points 4 months ago

firm handshake, smile and your daddy works with their daddy in local chambers of commerce bring a lot of success to recent mba grad.

[–] Nacarbac@hexbear.net 11 points 4 months ago

Gotcha, dropping a smoke bomb in the interview room.

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's just pictures of white people

Who could have predicted this? Not the LLM, obviously.

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 5 points 4 months ago

it's aggregate protrait from some other article they are citing, as i didn't see 5 faces they are referencing (smh)