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.
The researchers were like, “Hey you know that WEIRD bias problem in psychology and sociology research? What if, instead of trying to negate it, we maximized it?”
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The researchers were like, “Hey you know that WEIRD bias problem in psychology and sociology research? What if, instead of trying to negate it, we maximized it?”
lol they wanted to see if they could caliper for “good at job” and they picked fucking MBAs lmao
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5089827
they don’t have their own big five photos 😥
Me when I smile slightly
firm handshake, smile and your daddy works with their daddy in local chambers of commerce bring a lot of success to recent mba grad.
Gotcha, dropping a smoke bomb in the interview room.
Who could have predicted this? Not the LLM, obviously.
it’s aggregate protrait from some other article they are citing, as i didn’t see 5 faces they are referencing (smh)