Hmm, perhaps that’s why my post also says: “Of course, no individual with such features should be
automatically pigeonholed solely on that basis.” (And why I used the term statistically elevated in the first place.)
And re the cooperation - same thing. It would still be a relevant personality trait associated with co-manifesting physiological features.
I’d give more likes, if I could. Your four images are better than the single image that I was going to post.
I’m doing no such thing. I took great pains to make it clear that I’m speaking at an aggregate level, with explicit acknowledgement of individual variation and exceptions.
Why Israeli?
Even if we believe the claim of 80% success rate and assuming a 4% “pedophilic urges” (of which most is for post-pubescent teenagers), in a sample of 1000 people it will detect 200 potential pedophiles of which 32 are actual pedophiles, which makes for an 16% true positive rate (i.e. a person it points to has a 16% chance of being a pedophile).
I assume it’s much lower for terrorists. If there are 5000 active terrorists in the US it’s 1/50000 so in a population of a million people it will point to 200 thousand potential terrorists of which 16 are terrorists, making for a 0.008% true positive rate.
The eyes are windows into the soul…
…why not iris scanning?!?
Hey, that’s nothing. My company uses scanning of dollar bills to detect child pornographers in banking CEOs with 96% success. We will never, ever reveal our methods.
A readers’ comment on the original WashPost article says it better than I could:
This is especially disquieting coming from an Israeli firm, considering that such a bizarre genetic theory was also employed as “evidence” to support the establishment of a “Master Race” … and, ultimately, the extermination of millions.
Another commenter says:
I find it disturbingly ironic that an Israeli company “says it can take one look at a person’s face and realize character traits that are undetectable to the human eye.” when Germany’s Nazi Party also used pictures of Jews, Gypsies, Gays, and others to illustrate their criminal and anti-social
"features" to dehumanize and eventually murder them based on this pseudo-scientific means of branding people negatively without a scintilla of evidence.
Hey, I’m just the messenger. But I am appalled that anyone would consider this an ethical tool.
So I’m just going to take a wild guess, here, but those terrorists they identify via genetics… they’re of middle eastern descent, right?
Why do stock analysts have to work for finance companies? Surely they retired on the proceeds of their foresight long ago.
It couldn’t be that governments (and in my example investors) have a tendency to throw money at snake oil factories, could it?
Paedophiles gravitate towards professions that give them intimate access to children and a high degree of public trust. What matters is not abuse rates but how the organisations concerned handle it.
From what I read from Dan Savage’s regular posts about it other than the Catholic church the others are quite happy to go yep you are fired, no please sit down and wait for the popo to show up first.
(It’s right some of the time, but that’s largely coincidental.)
They should work on a percentage of profits (and chip in when there are losses), not percentage of account value.
Hillbilly police stations that just can’t wait to start another Satanic Day Care scare.
These people should be arrested along with the dowsers who try to sell their bomb-detecting rods to national security agencies.
fucking phrenology is still racism.
I think you make a good point. 
So these guys are likely to be wife beaters, etc.?
I can’t find a GIF for ‘raised skeptical eyebrow’.
