{"id":28228,"date":"2020-08-31T12:05:51","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T16:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/?p=28228"},"modified":"2020-08-21T22:48:46","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T02:48:46","slug":"zoom-should-treat-baldness-electronically","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/31\/zoom-should-treat-baldness-electronically\/","title":{"rendered":"Zoom should treat baldness electronically?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The highest-paying American employers celebrate diversity… so long as all of the diverse individuals are between 20 and 40 years of age. If interviews and work are virtual, though, could an older person slip in via the magic of image processing software?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Achieve college student skin color diversity via image processing?<\/a> I looked at whether Zoom could help colleges achieve the rainbow of skin tones that they seek. For interviews and long-term work, why not image processing to make an older person look reasonably young? Younger men are typically slimmer and have more hair than older men. Why not use image processing to bring the hairline back down towards the eyes and to slenderize the face, neck, and torso? For the righteous Silicon Valley employers, add skin tone to whatever the employers are seeking at the moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Readers: Is there any reason to show up to a job interview as a fat bald 60-year-old? Why not show up as a slim 35-year-old with luxuriant hair, like Brendan Fraser as the Colombian drug lord in Bedazzled:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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