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In your opinion, are qualitative labels like "attractive" or group membership such as someone's skin color or ethnicity within the domain of facts or not?

I.e. is the issue in the fact that the particular annotators were subjective and annotated some particular facts wrong (and the labels for skin color could be filled from, for example, census data which is self-reported) or that these whole type of labels shouldn't be attempted to be made as they're not facts?

If the latter, what do you think about the categories like "adult" or "sports car" that are also part of ImageNet; can we draw an unambiguous factual boundary between images of adults and teenagers, or "normal" cars and sports cars?



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