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outlier_lynn) wrote2006-07-18 12:00 am
outlier_lynn) wrote2006-07-18 12:00 am
Well, Duh
NY Ttimes article titled Just Another Face in the Crowd, Indistinguishable Even if It’s Your Own
It links, in the left sidebar, to a site with two face recognition tests.
I've always had a case of nerves when I am the one to pick someone up from the airport or any other event in which I am expected to recognize someone quickly and out of context. (Like not recognizing Amy when she was working at Carrows.)
Well, I scored really badly on the Famous Faces test. Really badly. I had no idea who most of the people were. They took away one of my clues (hair). I got some of them because they have distinctive mouths.
I did a little better on the Old-New Faces test. On that test, one twice views faces of 10 women then from another 40 faces, one picks whether the face was in the first set of ten. I get half the faces. Which is lousy. But I didn't pick faces that weren't in the first ten so my score was 75% which is the lower edge of "normal". Except that I tend to not recognize faces so it seems like I'd be likely to well on not picking wrongly.
I think, though, it might be related to my hearing issues. I tend to look at a person's mouth when they talk. Well, more like stare intently at the mouth. If I look them in the eye, for instance, I stop hearing what they are saying. So I rarely look at faces at all.
The little research I've done now suggests that I have "compensations" for dealing with "face blindness".
And the bottom line is: So what. There isn't anything to do about it. And even if there were, Old dog might be able to learn new tricks, but it just doesn't seem worth it.
I recognize Stacey. That's enough. :)
It links, in the left sidebar, to a site with two face recognition tests.
I've always had a case of nerves when I am the one to pick someone up from the airport or any other event in which I am expected to recognize someone quickly and out of context. (Like not recognizing Amy when she was working at Carrows.)
Well, I scored really badly on the Famous Faces test. Really badly. I had no idea who most of the people were. They took away one of my clues (hair). I got some of them because they have distinctive mouths.
I did a little better on the Old-New Faces test. On that test, one twice views faces of 10 women then from another 40 faces, one picks whether the face was in the first set of ten. I get half the faces. Which is lousy. But I didn't pick faces that weren't in the first ten so my score was 75% which is the lower edge of "normal". Except that I tend to not recognize faces so it seems like I'd be likely to well on not picking wrongly.
I think, though, it might be related to my hearing issues. I tend to look at a person's mouth when they talk. Well, more like stare intently at the mouth. If I look them in the eye, for instance, I stop hearing what they are saying. So I rarely look at faces at all.
The little research I've done now suggests that I have "compensations" for dealing with "face blindness".
And the bottom line is: So what. There isn't anything to do about it. And even if there were, Old dog might be able to learn new tricks, but it just doesn't seem worth it.
I recognize Stacey. That's enough. :)