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by jklontz 3728 days ago
We published a paper on this a few years ago! Short answer: algorithms exhibit different accuracies on different races, genders, and ages.

B. F. Klare, M. J. Burge, J. C. Klontz, R. W. Vorder Bruegge and A. K. Jain, "Face Recognition Performance: Role of Demographic Information," in IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, vol. 7, no. 6, pp. 1789-1801, Dec. 2012.

http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA556941