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Thursday, July 31, 2003

ALL LOOK SAME This poses the question of whether it is possible to tell the difference between various Asian ethnic groups. The site claims that it's not designed to cause offense - which is good. However, when I only identified 7/18 faces correctly, it told me that this was a "Bad Score" which rather implies I should be able to tell.

Personally I don't think it's important to be able to do this. Historically I can't think of a single situation where ethnic characteristics have been of benefit to a race (eg. think how Nazis tried to identify Jews by nasal size).

posted at 12:45 PM
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