• Natanael@slrpnk.net
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    That’s untested, even if it appears likely, it’s a hypothesis which doesn’t predict how it would be formed or learned or how it would be used, etc

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      Okay, here’s another. Large pupils are a sign of health and of arousal, and make humans feel more attraction, because it’s a better mate for breeding. Ads that leverage a model’s attractiveness will perform better if they use models with bigger pupils or digitally enlarge them.

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        Hypothesis for an existing observation without any robust underlying model. Even the advertisement bit is just a weak correlation which was observed after the fact and not predicted in advance based on any model