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Is it only me who finds it difficult to label expressions just in eyes, when it feels like an image of the overall face would be much clearer?

m-photonic 16y ago
I think that's rather the point of the test.
- makmanalp 16y ago
  While it's possible that I do have Asperger's (and I'd be interested to know if I did), I'm not sure how this properly tests anything. I know that Asperger's is sometimes characterised by a lack of understanding of social nuances and non-verbal expression, but how often do people have to react to only eyes as opposed to all facial expressions, supported by body language and words?
  - csbutler 16y ago
    I'd like to know that too. I got 28. The ones I got wrong I'm sure I got wrong because I started to think about it. I'd wonder if the person was smiling for example. When I didn't think about it, And trusted my instincts and feelings instead. I always got it right. And figured it out almost instantly. But logically I can't explain that. It was like magic.
    - mzl 16y ago
      I got 30 right, but with the exact opposite experience. The 6 I got wrong were the ones I did immediately, and the 30 I got right were the ones I thought about.
  - m-photonic 16y ago
    >how often do people have to react to only eyes as opposed to all facial expressions, supported by body language and words? Not often, but supplying only the eyes is a good way to bring the scores down into a more useful range for the test. Assuming that eye-specific recognition ability is a close enough proxy for overall ability, of course. Personally I don't think this test has anything to do with Asperger's. My feeling is that facial recognition is to some extent an acquired skill like anything else, and that the lowest scores are largely going to go to the people with the least experience in attending to the emotions of others.
  - pbhjpbhj 16y ago
    >how often do people have to react to only eyes as opposed to all facial expressions, supported by body language and words? When they are being lied to. That is, every day.
    - eru 16y ago
      What makes you think that people can control their body language, but not their eyes?
      - pbhjpbhj 16y ago
        >What makes you think that people can control their body language, but not their eyes? I think it's harder to control both, a disparity between the two suggests something is amiss. Also, "the eyes are the windows of the soul" has some basis in human behaviour IMO.
david55475 16y ago
One little bit of difficulty I had was that, while the original image was a bit too small, the zoomed-in one was (I felt) too big - I would have preferred an image size somewhere in-between.
- rlpb 16y ago
  Agreed. Also, with the image zoomed in, I could no longer see the options, so the entire test was far too taxing UI-wise. And I can't remember my exact score and after clicking Next can't get back to it, even though I assumed I could because it had a Back button before that. I was expecting more information about the score after clicking Next, but all it did was close. And it's unnecessarily in Flash. This seems very poor for a site that appears to sell software with which to make quizzes.
techiferous 16y ago
Weird bit of trivia: in photos of faces, the eyes carry most of the emotion, but in cartoon faces, the mouth does.
- lwhi 16y ago
  In cartoons - eyebrows are used to express a great deal of emotion.
- sp332 16y ago
  Western-style emoticon, happy mouth :-D Japanese-style emoticon, happy eyes ^_^

m-photonic 16y ago

I think that's rather the point of the test.

makmanalp 16y ago
While it's possible that I do have Asperger's (and I'd be interested to know if I did), I'm not sure how this properly tests anything. I know that Asperger's is sometimes characterised by a lack of understanding of social nuances and non-verbal expression, but how often do people have to react to only eyes as opposed to all facial expressions, supported by body language and words?
- csbutler 16y ago
  I'd like to know that too. I got 28. The ones I got wrong I'm sure I got wrong because I started to think about it. I'd wonder if the person was smiling for example. When I didn't think about it, And trusted my instincts and feelings instead. I always got it right. And figured it out almost instantly. But logically I can't explain that. It was like magic.
  - mzl 16y ago
    I got 30 right, but with the exact opposite experience. The 6 I got wrong were the ones I did immediately, and the 30 I got right were the ones I thought about.
- m-photonic 16y ago
  >how often do people have to react to only eyes as opposed to all facial expressions, supported by body language and words? Not often, but supplying only the eyes is a good way to bring the scores down into a more useful range for the test. Assuming that eye-specific recognition ability is a close enough proxy for overall ability, of course. Personally I don't think this test has anything to do with Asperger's. My feeling is that facial recognition is to some extent an acquired skill like anything else, and that the lowest scores are largely going to go to the people with the least experience in attending to the emotions of others.
- pbhjpbhj 16y ago
  >how often do people have to react to only eyes as opposed to all facial expressions, supported by body language and words? When they are being lied to. That is, every day.
  - eru 16y ago
    What makes you think that people can control their body language, but not their eyes?
    - pbhjpbhj 16y ago
      >What makes you think that people can control their body language, but not their eyes? I think it's harder to control both, a disparity between the two suggests something is amiss. Also, "the eyes are the windows of the soul" has some basis in human behaviour IMO.

david55475 16y ago

One little bit of difficulty I had was that, while the original image was a bit too small, the zoomed-in one was (I felt) too big - I would have preferred an image size somewhere in-between.

rlpb 16y ago
Agreed. Also, with the image zoomed in, I could no longer see the options, so the entire test was far too taxing UI-wise. And I can't remember my exact score and after clicking Next can't get back to it, even though I assumed I could because it had a Back button before that. I was expecting more information about the score after clicking Next, but all it did was close. And it's unnecessarily in Flash. This seems very poor for a site that appears to sell software with which to make quizzes.

techiferous 16y ago

Weird bit of trivia: in photos of faces, the eyes carry most of the emotion, but in cartoon faces, the mouth does.

lwhi 16y ago
In cartoons - eyebrows are used to express a great deal of emotion.
sp332 16y ago
Western-style emoticon, happy mouth :-D Japanese-style emoticon, happy eyes ^_^