• Eager Eagle@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Phrenology is bullshit. Race has been shown to correlate with political leaning several times and it’s encoded as facial attribute. Also correlate income, education, and location.

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      6 months ago

      It turns out that people in similar situations want similar things from their governments. It also turns out that a history of oppression based on race tends to put people from that race into a similar situation. And so on.

      The correlation isn’t coming from anything specific to the face, but clues about what demographic that individual could be from.

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      6 months ago

      Absolutely not, social status yes, but oppression of a race, doesn’t mean the race has a tendency, only that they are pressured into a social status that has that tendency.

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        6 months ago

        You’re the one bringing oppression and phrenology, that’s not what the study is about.