I think it is a problem for all face metrics. As more folk move to 3D stuff will get better tho.
Hormones affecting face shape might be a nice little correlation to look into. Nowt to do with sexuality.
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Absolutely. I don't think any of the discussion above was people wanting to improve face measurement to look at sexuality.
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What makes a morphology-sexuality link taboo to investigate? I *feel* like that study's not OK, but I want to be able to explain that better
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My main issue was that it could be used for anti gay governments /groups to identify people for murder. Ppl get beat up 4 *looking* muslim
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Yes, it happened to my friends. In fact, the 1st person I spoke to randomly in the UK when I just moved here wouldn't continue talking to me
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unless I clarified if I'm Muslim.
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My mum's brown and she wasn't allowed into Germany when we were driving around Europe until they checked her religion wasn't Muslim.
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So yeah, I have various personal and scientific reasons to think this kind of research is flawed and feeds people's bigotry.
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