#phrenology — Public Fediverse posts
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Are we not factoring in bumps on the head anymore? 🙄
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German neuroanatomist physiologist Franz Joseph Gall, born OTD in 1758, was a pioneer in the localization of mental functions in the brain, although his work was largely the pseudoscience of #phrenology https://toilet-guru.com/cholera-pump.html?s=mb #medicine #PublicHealth
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Flabbergasted to see Hazel catkins open this early in December. It's only 13 years ago, but finding these flowers open on my first #NewYearPlantHunt on New Year's Day 2013 was quite hard.
These particular plants have been flowering before Christmas in recent years, but, I think, not as early as this.
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#PseudoScience (phrenology) and Hate Called the #Irish "Inferior"
Hate, evil propoganda, and pseudoscience. Then as now = Evil stupidity!!!
FYI: Many of these knuckle dragging #whitesupremacists in the 21st century actually believe in ...wait for it... #phrenology 🤮
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iesB_QlKWus&pp=ugUEEgJlbg%3D%3D
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"So Mr Guenzel and his co-authors used an algorithm to analyse the pictures of 96,000 MBA graduates, and extract what they call the “Photo Big Five”—as they rename the Big Five personality traits of agreeableness, conscientiousness, extraversion, neuroticism and openness. (Before you head to the mirror, it’s not obvious what the AI is seeing.)
They then used data on these individuals’ labour-market outcomes to see whether the Photo Big Five had any predictive power. The answer, they conclude, is yes: facial analysis has useful things to say about a person’s post-MBA earnings and propensity to move jobs, among other things.
There are plenty of caveats. The predictive power of the Photo Big Five shouldn’t be exaggerated; the authors say it is only an incremental source of information on candidates. The field of AI facial analysis is young, and has been at the centre of methodological firestorms in the past. And even if techniques were flawless, adoption is likely to be slow. Anti-discrimination laws mean that there are obvious legal risks associated with making any decisions based on facial characteristics. Manish Raghavan of the MIT Sloan School of Management notes that companies are wary of using AI for facial analysis (though he worries more about bias infecting chatbot summaries of candidates’ cvs or LinkedIn profiles.)"
#Phrenology #PseudoScience #BullshitScience #AI #FacialAnalysis
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#rfkjr #idiot47 #phrenology #GOP #republicans #pseudoscience Next thing you know RFK Jr. and idiot47 will tell us that the bumps on our heads can predict behavior.
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German neuroanatomist physiologist Franz Joseph Gall, who died OTD in 1828, was a pioneer in the localization of mental functions in the brain, although his work was largely the pseudoscience of #phrenology https://toilet-guru.com/cholera-pump.html?s=mb #medicine #PublicHealth
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🇬🇧 💀 **How the racist study of skulls gripped Victorian Britain’s scientists **
"_In research for my forthcoming book on skull collections, I’ve found that Cambridge’s cranial register includes a skull sent from a former student stationed in India. He had plucked it from a cremation site in Bombay despite the outrage of gathered mourners. Brazen grave-robbing and colonial violence were central to the international network that furnished British universities’ skull rooms._"
#History #Histodons #Science #HistSci #Phrenology #Universities #ScientificRacism #Racism #Medicine #UK #UnitedKingdom @histodons @science
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Cool stuff. I'd like to fiddle with epaper but haven't got to it yet.
Also, if "doing phrenology on your pigs" isn't already a euphemism for something, it should be.
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"I am autistic, suspect I am autistic, or have a similar neurological difference.
Given my age/sex, the size of my skull is:"
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@brucelawson A pre-crime unit. I’ve seen that movie. We see what we want to believe is true.
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A quotation from Ambrose Bierce
PHYSIOGNOMY, n. The art of determining the character of another by the resemblances and differences between his face and our own, which is the standard of excellence.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Physiognomy,” The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/bierce-ambrose/75545…
#quote #quotes #quotation #appearance #bias #categorization #character #ego #norm #phrenology #physiognomy #prejudice #standard
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German neuroanatomist physiologist Franz Joseph Gall, born OTD in 1758, was a pioneer in the localization of mental functions in the brain, although his work was largely the pseudoscience of #phrenology https://toilet-guru.com/cholera-pump.html?s=mb #medicine #PublicHealth
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"As with other forensic innovations, like forensic genetic genealogy or facial recognition, FDP is sold as an “investigative tool” — that is, a product not intended for use as evidence in a criminal proceeding, but as a behind-the-scenes aide to police searching for perpetrators. But selling a scientifically questionable product as a mere investigative tool can have real-world consequences.
For FDP in particular, experts warn that the composite images can reinforce racial stereotypes, encourage the over-surveillance of marginalized communities, and deny criminal defendants important information about how they became a target of an investigation, which raises serious implications for Fourth Amendment privacy rights. Composites like those Parabon sells could also inadvertently taint the memories of eyewitnesses to a crime, risking potentially valuable evidence.
Paula Armentrout, Parabon’s co-founder, provided written responses to questions from The Intercept about the company’s Snapshot program. In part, the company said that The Intercept “should not quote any of the presenters” at the NAS workshop, who it claims “made many false, uninformed, and misleading statements that were not based on evidence or facts, but on misinformation propagated by inaccurate media articles, hearsay, and their own personal and political agendas.”
Walsh insists her criticisms are motivated solely by her fidelity to the science and to ensuring the transparency and accuracy of forensic tools used in the criminal legal system. To that end, she was emphatic during the workshop: Law enforcement should not be allowed to purchase phenotyping composites. “The science isn’t there. We shouldn’t be doing it,” she said. At this juncture, she said, those sketches are about as scientific as “my son drawing them.”"
https://theintercept.com/2025/02/02/forensic-dna-phenotyping-parabon-nanolabs-police/
#PseudoScience #Surveillance #Forensics #CivilLiberties #DNA #Phrenology
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Phrenology is about to make a come back. If you're having trouble with a morally contracted inability to cash in on populism, brainworms can be therapuetic.
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The year is 2003. My mother is telling me with total seriousness that she is smarter than her husband because her forehead is taller than his. This woman was a registered nurse. #Phrenology #HealthcareWorkersCanBeNutsToo
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@drml Uutta frenologiaa etsimässä, https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frenologia, vaiko vain neuro-hypeä?
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German neuroanatomist physiologist Franz Joseph Gall, who died OTD in 1828, was a pioneer in the localization of mental functions in the brain, although his work was largely the pseudoscience of #phrenology https://toilet-guru.com/cholera-pump.html?s=mb #medicine #PublicHealth
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Just saw someone refer to phrenology in the context of right-wing politics.
Please tell me conservatives aren't pushing phrenology.
This is a lot worse than the flat-earth nonsense.
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Phrenology once captivated minds with its promise to reveal character through skull bumps. My latest article explores this pseudoscience's fascinating history and its troubling ties to Social Darwinism and racism. https://forgottenfiles.substack.com/p/skulls-and-pseudoscience #Phrenology #History #Pseudoscience #Histodon
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#BurnHill is one of two adjacent hills at #Eythrope in #Buckinghamshire. Despite their #barrow like appearences they are believed to be natural or perhaps modified in antiquity. Despite this, Burn Hill contained two skeletons that the Victorian excavators identified as being from either the 'Early #IronAge or #AngloSaxon Period.' Their employment of #Phrenology likely undermines the credibility of their research. #photo #photography #WideAnglePhotography #LandscapePhotography
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Men At Arms - #TerryPratchett
> Phrenology, as everyone knows, is a way of reading someone’s character, aptitude and abilities by examining the bumps and hollows on their head. Therefore […] it should be possible to mould someone’s character by giving them carefully graded bumps in all the right places. You can go into a shop and order an artistic temperament with a tendency to introspection and a side order of hysteria. What you actually get is hit on the head[.]
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German neuroanatomist physiologist Franz Joseph Gall, born OTD in 1758, was a pioneer in the localization of mental functions in the brain, although his work was largely the pseudoscience of #phrenology https://toilet-guru.com/cholera-pump.html?s=mb #medicine #PublicHealth
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I combed through some of my Half Hour Hegel video and found several digressions and asides people might find interesting. Here's a video bundling four of them together!
https://youtu.be/ZrSpQiUmeBc
#Video #Hegel #Digressions #Asides #Brain #Phrenology #Phenomenology #Spirit #Pleasure -
CW: Long thread/5
#15yrsago The Manuscript: a #technothriller written by someone who understands technology https://memex.craphound.com/2008/11/14/the-manuscript-a-technothriller-written-by-someone-who-understands-technology/
#10yrsago UK Conservative party tries to send all official speeches down the memory hole https://www.computerweekly.com/blog/Public-Sector-IT/Conservatives-erase-Internet-history
#10yrsago #TSA blows a billion bucks on unscientific “#BehavioralDetection” program, reinvents #phrenology https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/11/despite-lack-of-science-tsa-spent-millions-on-behavioral-detection-officers/
#10yrsago #Renault ships a brickable car with battery #DRM that you’re not allowed to own https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/11/drm-cars-will-drive-consumers-crazy
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The #ConspiracyTheorists Who Think All #Celebrities Are #Secretly #Trans.
#Transvestigation, or “#elite #gender #inversion”, combines #phrenology, #psuedoscience and #newage #woowoo in one #transphobic #package.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #ConspiracyTheories #Hate #Bigotry #Transphobia
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The #ConspiracyTheorists Who Think All #Celebrities Are #Secretly #Trans.
#Transvestigation, or “#elite #gender #inversion”, combines #phrenology, #psuedoscience and #newage #woowoo in one #transphobic #package.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #ConspiracyTheories #Hate #Bigotry #Transphobia
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The #ConspiracyTheorists Who Think All #Celebrities Are #Secretly #Trans.
#Transvestigation, or “#elite #gender #inversion”, combines #phrenology, #psuedoscience and #newage #woowoo in one #transphobic #package.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #ConspiracyTheories #Hate #Bigotry #Transphobia
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The #ConspiracyTheorists Who Think All #Celebrities Are #Secretly #Trans.
#Transvestigation, or “#elite #gender #inversion”, combines #phrenology, #psuedoscience and #newage #woowoo in one #transphobic #package.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #ConspiracyTheories #Hate #Bigotry #Transphobia
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The #ConspiracyTheorists Who Think All #Celebrities Are #Secretly #Trans.
#Transvestigation, or “#elite #gender #inversion”, combines #phrenology, #psuedoscience and #newage #woowoo in one #transphobic #package.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #ConspiracyTheories #Hate #Bigotry #Transphobia
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we’re really going to have #facialRecognition technology become widespread for the public at the same time #phrenology / #physiognomy bros control all the data huh
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The ultra-#cringe digital #phrenology back-and-forth between Rep #BuddyCarter and #TikTok's #ShouChew:
https://doctorow.medium.com/how-to-make-a-child-safe-tiktok-be08fbf94b0d
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Skeptoid #67: Do Your Body Features Measure Up? by Brian Dunning #phrenology #physiognomy #palmistry #iridology #SkeptoidPodcast #podcast #bot An examination of phrenology, physiognomy, palmistry, and iridology.
https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4067 -
„In the 1930s, make-up legend Max Factor came up with an ingenious invention combining #phrenology, #cosmetics, and a pseudo-scientific approach to analyze a woman’s facial flaws.This is the #Beauty Micrometer, a Clockwork Orange-style device that claimed to measure facial #ugliness.“
🔗 https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/max-factor-beauty-calibrator-photos/
What a horrible contraption and mindset, right?
So happy that we have surveillance-capitalist vc-funded crap-app algorithms for that today. 😌
