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facial recognition technology predicted political orientation better than the personality tests completed by the Facebook users. “Combined, five personality factors predicted political orientation with 66% accuracy—significantly less than what was achieved by the face-based classifier in the same sample (73%),” Kosinski reports. “In other words, a single facial image reveals more about a person’s political orientation than their responses to a fairly long personality questionnaire, including many items ostensibly related to political orientation”