What makes you you? I have dark hair, pale skin, and Asiatic features. I wear glasses. My facial structure is vaguely round, with extra subcutaneous fat in my cheeks compared to my peers. What I have done is describe the features of my face. Each of these features described can be thought of as a point within a probability continuum. What is the probability of having dark hair? Among my friends, dark hair is a very common feature, and so are glasses (a remarkable statistic is out of the 300 people or so I polled on my Facebook page, 281 of them require prescription glasses). The epicanthic folds of my eyes are probably less common, as is the extra subcutaneous fat in my cheeks.
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