From Alex Tabarrok at Marginal Revolution, a link to the Face Analyzer, ‘the only automated face reader in the world. Submit a picture of yourself on line, and the Face Analyzer will rush to conclusions about your character and intelligence.
Here are the ratings Alex got.
Intelligence: 3.9 (out of 4 maybe but out of 10? I am crushed).
Ambition: 3.7 – low. Low ambition? I’ll show them!
Gay Factor: 1.0 – very low. Good, I think. Maybe. Not that there is anything wrong with that.
Politeness: 3.2 – low. Stupid Face Analyzer. What do you know.
Income: 10-30 thousand. Hah!
Promiscuity: 6.1 average. My highest score. Don’t tell my wife.
Alex is right to be unhappy. The Face Analyzer is sure to be used by college admissions and hiring committees everywhere.
Technology to the rescue. Dont like your face analyzer score? You can beat the system! Use the transformational software from the University of St. Andrew: The Face Morpher. Change your gender, age, race, or aesthetics. Watch those Face Analyzer scores soar!
I offer myself up a test subject. I took this image
and asked the Face Morpher to give me what it calls the Afro Caribbean treatment:
Then I asked it to give me the El Greco treatment
I cant help feeling that looking like Derek Walcott and Isaiah Berlin will be good for my test score and my career opps. Of course, I cant find out because the Face Analyzer is jammed. This is what happened when you get a nod from Marginal Revolution, as I know from my own experience.
Watch this space.
Yours truly,
Acknowledgements:
Thanks to the ever-interesting Steve Portigal for the link to the Face Morpher.
The Face Analyzer can be found here
How did you manage to capture those images? Using the “save” feature? I couldn’t ever get that to work…
Steve, I used “snag it” a great little screen capture program. You can down load a trial copy from http://www.techsmith.com/products/snagit/default.asp. Thanks again fo the heads up on the web site! Best, Grant
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When I finally got through to the Face Analyzer, it told me I was middle eastern and female. Both of which were news to me. So I didn’t really take the personality assesment to heart.
The face transformer was pretty neat, though. “Older adult” made me look vaguely like my grandfather, and “feminise” made me look like my mother. And I make one scary manga cartoon…
Oh, duhh, it IS screengrabbable – you can do it with whatever Windows (assumuing) PrtScrn thing you’ve got.
I assumed – again – that since it was Java – you couldn’t grab it. Never mind.
Oh, that’s just funny! My ancestry may be Scots/Irish/French but apparently my features are Korean/Japanese/Chinese. Perhaps I should try it again with a better picture.
can someone give me the URL to get to a site restricted on school computers..preferably myspace.