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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (16 children)

I'm surely just deranged, but I wholeheartedly believe I can tell someone's political leaning without even having to speak to them, just from their appearance. So far I've had incredible accuracy.

Edit: nothing against anyone commenting, but I don't care a lot about this particular innocuous comment and don't want to have discussions about it forever, so I'm going to quit replying to new comments, feel free to leave them or downvote me or whatever, I'm just dipping on this greentext thread.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Well, can you make a pretty good guess at someone's profession and wealth by looking at them? Putting aside actual political apparel and some hobby/in-group indicators (EG RealTree camo or anime merchandise) that's probably the correlation.

Back when image recognition AI was the hot topic I recall someone did a study which used it to identify the vehicles parked in front of homes and businesses from street view photos, and used it to predict a county's overall political leaning with very high accuracy. I'm sure that same logic extends to clothes, hairstyle, accessories and cleanliness.

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