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Daily review is also your post.
This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day.
The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy).
Don’t forget to be kind to each other …
Oh joy, phrenology is making a comeback.
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Personality assessments are an accepted part of recruitment processes. They normally involve candidates taking surveys and guessing what counts as a good answer. Yet previous research suggests that personality types can be encoded in facial features, and that artificial intelligence (AI) can spot them. 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. (Before you head to the mirror, it’s not obvious what the AI is seeing.)
They then used data on these individuals’ labour-market outcomes to see whether the Photo Big Five had any predictive power. The answer, they conclude, is yes: facial analysis has useful things to say about a person’s post-MBA earnings and propensity to move jobs, among other things.
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You could make the case that this would be fine. After all, plenty of decisions are already being taken on the basis of physical appearance. There is a height premium in hiring, for example, which makes it more likely that a taller person will get chosen than 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.
https://archive.li/7pFbH (the economist)
https://insights.som.yale.edu/sites/default/files/2025-01/AI%20Personality%20Extraction%20from%20Faces%20Labor%20Market%20Implications_0.pdf
As a short person, the height advantage does not seem to me a good model for AI to be following. And I never had a problem getting jobs.
They need their bumps felt.
groan
Don't get fooled on climate change again
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/dont-get-fooled-climate-change-again-bryce-edwards-me1rc?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_android&utm_campaign=share_via
It is with disgust rather than satisfaction that I see my doubts about a “carbon market”, confirmed.
Helen Clark was right with carbon taxes in the first instance
I'd have to check but my understanding is the Greens wanted a carbon tax and Labour chose trading instead.
Politicians throwing away our future for a quick buck – remind you of anyone?
https://www.greens.org.nz/more_oil_and_gas_poured_on_climate_fire_as_govt_reopens_exploration
Sharon Murdoch – 9 Dec 2014