{"id":2768,"date":"2012-03-29T02:48:59","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T01:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/?p=2768"},"modified":"2012-03-29T02:48:59","modified_gmt":"2012-03-29T01:48:59","slug":"re-the-accuracy-of-inferences-about-criminality-based-on-facial-appearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/2012\/03\/re-the-accuracy-of-inferences-about-criminality-based-on-facial-appearance\/","title":{"rendered":"RE: THE ACCURACY OF INFERENCES ABOUT CRIMINALITY BASED ON FACIAL APPEARANCE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/THE-ACCURACY-OF-INFERENCES-ABOUT-CRIMINALITY-.pdf\">THE ACCURACY OF INFERENCES ABOUT CRIMINALITY<\/a><br \/>\nBut they didnt control for IQ which is strange. They even mention it that one can spot intelligent people:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cAs far as  empirical findings  in support of the  accuracy of judgments based on<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">facial appearance, the evidence is  sparse but generally positive.  To date, accurate<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">assessments from facial appearance have been found in the domains of intelligence,<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">willingness to deceive,  criminality, sexual orientation, certain personality traits (e.g.,<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">social dominance, interpersonal warmth), and aggressive tendencies. For instance, Alley<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">(1988) found that people could assess levels of intelligence at better-than-chance levels<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">based on facial appearance alone (though concerns with their methodology have been<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">raised because of their photograph selection criteria) (Berry &amp; Finch Wero, 1993).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So why didnt they control for intelligence? At least, they did control for attractiveness, so one cant spot intelligent people just becus <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/blog\/the-scientific-fundamentalist\/200903\/beautiful-people-are-more-intelligent-i\">they are more attractive<\/a>. It is obvious to correct for intelligence since it is widely known that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/blog\/the-scientific-fundamentalist\/201006\/why-criminals-are-less-intelligent-non-criminals\">criminals are less intelligent<\/a>. Perhaps one can spot the criminals by looking for cues of intelligence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE ACCURACY OF INFERENCES ABOUT CRIMINALITY But they didnt control for IQ which is strange. They even mention it that one can spot intelligent people: \u201cAs far as empirical findings in support of the accuracy of judgments based on facial appearance, the evidence is sparse but generally positive. To date, accurate assessments from facial appearance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1624],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolutionary-psychology","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2768"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2771,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2768\/revisions\/2771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}