Forwarded from Race Realism Channel
Genetic ancestry and sex can be predicted with great accuracy via brain scans:
"In this work we predicted genetic ancestry from rs-fMRI connectivity data at very high performance (area under the ROC curve of 0.93). Thereby, we demonstrated that genetic ancestry is encoded in the functional connectivity pattern of the brain at rest. [...] Subjects’ sex could also be predicted at very high accuracy with mean AUC of 0.98 (and standard deviation of
0.016)."
Source: Evidence for Bias of Genetic Ancestry in Resting State Functional MRI (2018)
"In this work we predicted genetic ancestry from rs-fMRI connectivity data at very high performance (area under the ROC curve of 0.93). Thereby, we demonstrated that genetic ancestry is encoded in the functional connectivity pattern of the brain at rest. [...] Subjects’ sex could also be predicted at very high accuracy with mean AUC of 0.98 (and standard deviation of
0.016)."
Source: Evidence for Bias of Genetic Ancestry in Resting State Functional MRI (2018)
bioRxiv
Evidence for Bias of Genetic Ancestry in Resting State Functional MRI
Resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) is a popular imaging modality for mapping the functional connectivity of the brain. Rs-fMRI is, just like other neuroimaging modalities, subject to a series of technical and subject level biases…