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From the start I had a suspicion that they might be playing tricks with the image, so I tried to discount color (either the lack of, or sepia tones) and low res

by shard 6y ago

From the start I had a suspicion that they might be playing tricks with the image, so I tried to discount color (either the lack of, or sepia tones) and low resolution (I assumed that high resolution cannot be faked), and go by the clothing style as much as possible, and other items in the image (signs, use of horses). This made the large crowd at the Washington monument difficult to place.

muststopmyths 6y ago
I tried the same approach and the annoying thing about the mall photo is that it could be either MLK's march or the Million Man march in 1995. Without detail, you can't really tell unless you've seen the exact photo before. I picked 95 even though they showed me a black and white image. I learned I don't really know much about clothing styles. From the site: >When you were dating the photos, you probably looked for context clues — what people were wearing, if there were any familiar buildings, and if you recognized any faces. You were probably also looking at color. I would argue that the very nature of the site makes it more likely that most people were using context clues. I also wonder if color gives you more detail/clues and hence in most of the photos I was shown, the color guesses were closer to the actual year. I would find the accuracy of the guesses (as opposed to the difference between color and B&W guesses) more informational, for a larger data set.
tempacct234 6y ago
I did the same, while also using historical knowledge of events and things like architecture and relative spread of cultural or fashion clues. I would love to detail how I pegged basically all the images, but that is not something that can be discussed here for reasons I will not elaborate on. It's actually an interesting point that is directly related to the subject research. How can you get an accurate picture when things cannot be discussed freely … you simply can't. I encourage everyone to diversify your channels for for discussion and knowledge, be it distributed forums or even things like using some of the browsers and/or plugins that allow for open discussion on top of what is permitted by the heavy handed types (to put it it extremely lightly) among us.

by shard 6y ago

muststopmyths 6y ago

I tried the same approach and the annoying thing about the mall photo is that it could be either MLK's march or the Million Man march in 1995. Without detail, you can't really tell unless you've seen the exact photo before. I picked 95 even though they showed me a black and white image. I learned I don't really know much about clothing styles. From the site: >When you were dating the photos, you probably looked for context clues — what people were wearing, if there were any familiar buildings, and if you recognized any faces. You were probably also looking at color. I would argue that the very nature of the site makes it more likely that most people were using context clues. I also wonder if color gives you more detail/clues and hence in most of the photos I was shown, the color guesses were closer to the actual year. I would find the accuracy of the guesses (as opposed to the difference between color and B&W guesses) more informational, for a larger data set.

tempacct234 6y ago

I did the same, while also using historical knowledge of events and things like architecture and relative spread of cultural or fashion clues. I would love to detail how I pegged basically all the images, but that is not something that can be discussed here for reasons I will not elaborate on. It's actually an interesting point that is directly related to the subject research. How can you get an accurate picture when things cannot be discussed freely … you simply can't. I encourage everyone to diversify your channels for for discussion and knowledge, be it distributed forums or even things like using some of the browsers and/or plugins that allow for open discussion on top of what is permitted by the heavy handed types (to put it it extremely lightly) among us.