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Sigh …

Listen, sorry I asked. I originally asked, because I was under the impression that the photo selection was the result of an algorithm, and I actually shared an example, from my own life, that established a context for the question.

In my testing, I went through dozens of photos, and, in my testing, they all came up white, so it’s not surprising that I would have the idea that there was some … homogeneity … to the dataset.

I quickly found out, due to comments, that the selection was done manually, and that the dataset was not completely homogenous, rendering my question moot. In fact, I even added a comment, to that effect.

But by that time, it was too late. The torches and pitchforks were out. As it is standard practice, on the Internet, to jump to wild, cartoonish, hilariously wrong, conclusions about people, I set myself up for that.

Basically, I made the same mistake as you: an inaccurate assumption, based on insufficient data.

I won’t make this mistake again.

Have a great day.



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