stackyFACTSThe cross-race effect exposes a profound limitation in visual pattern recognition.
The cross-race effect exposes a profound limitation in visual pattern recognition. Your optical software becomes highly specialized in parsing the subtle facial geometries of the demographic you grew up around, completely failing to build the necessary algorithms for anyone else. It causes massive, highly embarrassing recognition errors simply because the biological facial-scanning engine was trained on an extremely limited dataset.
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