Comment by a_n
19 days ago
I made this site where you upload a photo of your face and it ranks your face on a bunch of measurable parameters , and then gives you a final rating based on how close your features are to the ideal face. There is also a public leaderboard. This went kind of viral at my uni when i launched it, like over a 1000 people have gotten their ratings and people seem so exicted to see where there friends rank etc. curious to see what y'all think
The top-ranks on the leaderboard has me convinced this is a poor predictor of actual attractiveness to actual humans. You should have an option to privately rate a photo and not post it publicly. Seems like a big oversight.
lol, yikes, yeah at least start with a hot-or-not baseline as a sanity test.
people are subjective, math is objective ;)
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honestly the leaderboard was the most interesting part of the project for me. like people looking at their friends, the people near them who have similar rating etc. was the coolest part. if i allowed people to not post it publicly, most wont, and that would ruin the appeal of the site
This is fascinating... I am curious, are any concerns with the algorithm being raised? Or are people blindly accepting their ranking?
i do think people sort of accepted the ratings cos 1) a lot of people with really high ratings were posting it on their instagram story 2) a lot of people tried to upload a lot of photos to try to get a higher rating 3) some people dm'd me sad messages like why do i have such a low rating haha