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On Instagram, pictures with human faces are 38 percent more likely to receive likes than photos with no faces, U.S. researchers say.
Study leader Saeideh Bakhshi, a doctoral candidate at the Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing, adviser Eric Gilbert, an assistant professor in the School of Interactive Computing, and David Shamma, a Yahoo research scientist, looked at 1.1 million photos on Instagram, using face detection software.
