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I'm fascinated by the Cambridge Face Memory Test (direct link: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/psychology/psychologyexperiments/experiments/facememorytest/startup.php http
by classichasclass 8y ago
I'm fascinated by the Cambridge Face Memory Test (direct link: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/psychology/psychologyexperiments/experiments/facememorytest/startup.php http://www.bbk.ac.uk/psychology/psychologyexperiments/experi... ). I got 99%, which seems remarkably and unrealistically high even though people say I have a good memory for faces. Of course, I can't just go take the test again, because now I know what the faces look like.
I've had moments like what the other super-recognizer officers did, though. Before I got married and I was on a dating site I shall not name, I immediately recognized one of the secretaries on there from the C-suite, someone I interacted with a couple times but only that. I quickly broke the match, hopefully before she noticed, since that might have been a little weird.
More often I know faces but not names, which makes things awfully awkward at professional meetings. "Hey, ... guy!"
- majos 8y agoHeh. I got 97%. I like to think I have a good face memory, but some of the noisy images felt like guessing. Also: weird that the test consists entirely of remembering the faces of white guys.
- classichasclass 8y agoYeah, that was weird too. I don't know how reliable this would be for someone who hasn't primarily been around "white guys." At minimum I was expecting some pictures of female faces, but there wasn't even that.