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I've recently come to realize that I'm consistently terrible at recognizing faces. Anecdotal of course, but at this point I've noticed and heard / seen it demo
by incision 12y ago
I've recently come to realize that I'm consistently terrible at recognizing faces.
Anecdotal of course, but at this point I've noticed and heard / seen it demonstrated by other people enough to give me pause.
When I think about describing someone, it's almost always in terms of what they've said - specific choices of words, tone or body language, certainly never about the face.
If true, I wonder if this would be any sort of advantage / disadvantage?
- chriskanan 12y agoYou might consider being evaluated for prosopagnosia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosopagnosia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosopagnosia There is a lot of research on the topic. I haven't seen any research that suggests there might be advantages for having it, but it is an interesting thought.
- mrfusion 12y agoWow me too! I've always been curious if that's a thing.
- brm 12y agoI'm the opposite, I rarely if ever forget a face and can recognize people who waited on me in a grocery line, walking down the street in a different city years later. I have no idea what it is or what it means, but we seem to be opposite ends of some sort of spectrum.