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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,
by 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.