Humans and AI models are both benchmarked on facial age estimation with a single number: mean absolute error. Until now there's been no framework for what that number actually measures. Our new paper, open access in Scientific Reports, provides one.

How good are we at estimating someone's age from their face and how does that change with the face's chronological age? @tganel.bsky.social et al.'s new framework disentangles bias and error, revealing new insights into how facial age is computed by humans and AIs. 🧪 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...