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Comment on 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"

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AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

They just use the buzzword “AI”, but in reality it’s probably going to be a machine learning algorithm.

Take the dataset, split out the groups of people you do/don’t want to hire based on whatever criteria, train the model to be more likely to pick faces with characteristics from the “do hire” group, and less likely to pick those from the “don’t hire” group.

Then, use it on real people, and it will provide similar outcomes based on faces.

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LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
What I meant was, what is the mechanism that supposedly connects facial features to job performance?

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- AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  the article says they’re comparing it to their earnings and likelihood to switch jobs among other things.
  
  Two things that are coincidentally lower (in terms of pay) and higher (in terms of propensity to switch jobs) for black people, rather than white people.
  
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