Scientists in Denmark have published a groundbreaking study in the Nature-owned journal Scientific Reports, which demonstrates a correlation between physical attractiveness and political ideology, specifically among women.
According to the findings, attractive women are more likely to be “right-wing,” while women displaying contempt tend to lean more “left-wing.”
The study, conducted in March, employed artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning techniques to predict political ideology based on facial characteristics.
By analyzing just one headshot, the AI was able to predict a person’s political ideology with an accuracy of 61% for both males and females.The researchers used 3,288 photographs of political candidates from the 2017 Danish Municipal election. These photos are a publicly-available resource, feeding these images into Microsoft Azure’s Face API tool to assess each person’s emotional state.
