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> I would not be surprised if a face recognition NN worked better on Europeans rather than Chinese, for the prima facie reason that they have more variable facial features and other aspects like multiple hair colors other than black

To people who are used to them. i.e. to you.

I'm Irish, and can tell many Irish accents apart. But I've had people from England not being able to hear the difference between Irish accents, thinking they all just sounded Irish.

I've literally been in a group of Europeans in Africa, and Africans mixing up several of the women there, because they were all relatively tall, slim build, with longish straight brown hair.



That's a classical example of «Outgroup Homogeneity» [1] and I'm surprised that some people are still making these arguments to support their claims.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out-group_homogeneity


It's not a classic example until you can establish that it's an example.


This only means it's hard to judge manually.




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