Assessing Classifiers

Problem 1

Please take some time (30 minutes is likely enough) to briefly read the paper “Automated inference on criminality using face images”(Wu and Zhang 2016), available at this link.

Then, please write a paragraph in which you respond to the following questions:

1. What is the task that the authors address? What is the target variable they are trying to predict, and what are the features being used to make the prediction?
2. What is the main finding or achievement that the authors present?
3. If a major newspaper wrote an article about this research paper, what would the headline be?
4. If you read that headline, what would your reaction be?
5. Does anything smell funny to you about the authors’ methods?

References

Wu, Xiaolin, and Xi Zhang. 2016. “Automated Inference on Criminality Using Face Images.” arXiv Preprint arXiv:1611.04135 4.