How many times has Big 5 been debunked yet employers still like it for reasons?
oce@jlai.lu 14 hours ago
I looked for the original article, abstract:
Human capital—encompassing cognitive skills and personality traits—is critical for labor market success, yet the personality component remains difficult to measure at scale. Leveraging advances in artificial intelligence and comprehensive LinkedIn data, we extract the Big 5 personality traits from facial images of 96,000 MBA graduates, and demonstrate that this novel" Photo Big 5" predicts school rank, compensation, job seniority, industry choice, job transitions, and career advancement. Using administrative records from top-tier MBA programs, we find that the Photo Big 5 exhibits only modest correlations with cognitive measures like GPA and standardized test scores, yet offers comparable incremental predictive power for labor outcomes. Unlike traditional survey-based personality measures, the Photo Big 5 is readily accessible and potentially less susceptible to manipulation, making it suitable for wide adoption in academic research and hiring processes. However, its use in labor market screening raises ethical concerns regarding statistical discrimination and individual autonomy.
The PDF is downloadable here: scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citatio…
I don’t have the time nor the expertise to read everything to understand how they take into account the bias that good looking white men with educated parents are way more likely to succeed at life.
Maeve@kbin.earth 13 hours ago
usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 11 hours ago
I’m wondering if things like FAS (which can have certain facial characteristics) are muddling the results as well.
cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 13 hours ago
one can also get the full paper directly from yale here without needing to solve a google captcha:
…yale.edu/…/AI Personality Extraction from Faces …
i admittedly did not read the entire 61 pages but i read enough to answer this:
spoiler
they don’t
underisk@lemmy.ml 10 hours ago
Lmao they source the photos from LinkedIn profiles. I’m sure that didn’t bias their training at all. Yes sir there’s no chance this thing is selecting for anything but facial features.
Seleni@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Wow. When I saw the article I figured it would be bad, but that’s even worse than I expected lol
What is it with these idiots trying to re-brand racism and reinvent phrenology every few decades? Are they stupid enough to believe they’re the first to think of shit like this, or are they hoping we’re dumb enough to fall for it this time around?
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
They’re hoping they have sufficient cover with Nazis in the White House and they’re probably right.