Telling Alice and Bob apart visually because of their individual facial features, and possibly using that to uniquely identify them, is one thing.
Being convinced you can deduce Bob's character traits e.g. determine that Bob must have criminal tendencies based on the shape of his nose, is something very different.
This paper is about the later. About people doing CS research becoming convinced the later is possible, because their statistics dousing rod has found a correlation in their data set. And the very bad consequences that can follow from this.
You might want to at least read the abstract of the paper.
Being convinced you can deduce Bob's character traits e.g. determine that Bob must have criminal tendencies based on the shape of his nose, is something very different.
This paper is about the later. About people doing CS research becoming convinced the later is possible, because their statistics dousing rod has found a correlation in their data set. And the very bad consequences that can follow from this.
You might want to at least read the abstract of the paper.