The eyes have it.
Nov. 9th, 2010 08:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Interesting test here which tests your ability to tell people's emotions from looking at their eyes. It's used as one of a series of tests for Aspergers and the like.
[Poll #1642444]
My score was not what I expected.
[Poll #1642444]
My score was not what I expected.
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Date: 2010-11-09 08:52 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-11-09 09:11 am (UTC)I'd have been concerned mind you, if I'd got full marks....
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Date: 2010-11-09 12:09 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2010-11-09 09:32 am (UTC)It felt strange. I started off basically guessing -- except that almost all of my guesses happened to be right.
A third of the way through, I thought to try to imagine the whole face making the expressions described and see which seemed right, and that seemed to help a lot. I probably mimed making that face, but not deliberately. I started to consciously notice the position of the face and position of the eyes, which correlated with what sounded vaguely plausible for those emotions.
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Date: 2010-11-09 12:24 pm (UTC)(I also noticed what Elmyra says)
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Date: 2010-11-09 09:57 am (UTC)Which is only slightly better than chance.
Perhaps if I'd tried the "trying out the emotions" trick I would have done better but I think that's cheating because it relies on having a short-list to pick from.
I'm not diagnosed with Aspergers or Autism.
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Date: 2010-11-09 10:03 am (UTC)a couple of observations:
- I'm sure I got the same picture twice, illustrating 'fantasising' and 'thoughtful'
- I based my judgements on eye direction -- looking away, looking toward -- which makes me gloomy as eye contact is something I sometimes find difficult, and this test implies that I am giving off the wrong signals. (Not that this is a surprise, I do that a lot.)
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Date: 2010-11-09 10:18 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2010-11-09 10:08 am (UTC)You may think I got three wrong. No, they got three wrong.
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Date: 2010-11-09 10:20 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2010-11-09 10:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-11-09 10:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-11-09 11:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-11-09 11:15 am (UTC)But yeah, my own problems aside, I can pretty much ace this.
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Date: 2010-11-09 05:31 pm (UTC)I ended up with 31, but I think it should've been 33.
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Date: 2010-11-09 11:15 am (UTC)Incidentally, it resized my browser, so I wonder if that was important. And if not, then why did they do it? As all it did in my case was annoy me - and then make me resize it back again before I started. If that's not what they wanted, then a failed quiz, I reckon!
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Date: 2010-11-09 11:19 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2010-11-09 11:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-11-09 11:19 am (UTC)I find it interesting how the test's images were gendered on some of the options, though.
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Date: 2010-11-09 11:20 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2010-11-09 11:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-11-09 12:02 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2010-11-09 11:40 am (UTC)Not a single non-white face. While there was a mix of young and old men, tehre wasn't a single wrinkle around any of the female eyes, and all the eye brows were meticulously plucked. While men were defiant and decisive and hostlie, women were fantasising (twice!) and flirtatious, and frankly mostly just bland.
This experiment set-up is deeply flawed.
(Sorry, this is not directed at you, but I just clicked through 36 images of 1950s stereotype and it's made me unexpectedly and incredibly angry, so I thought I'd share the pain. ;-)
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Date: 2010-11-09 11:58 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2010-11-09 12:13 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-11-09 02:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-11-09 03:04 pm (UTC)I couldn't tell you what it is in any image that makes it look like the emotion it's supposed to look like.
I also noticed the way all the sex-related ones were women, and I'm not normally the sort of person who notices or cares about that kind of thing, so it must have been quite an extreme bias.
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Date: 2010-11-09 06:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-11-09 06:05 pm (UTC)I got 22. I did a lot better on "positive" behaviours than "negative". And - I think - better on reading women's eyes than men's.
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Date: 2010-11-09 06:12 pm (UTC)Reading through the comments, I too thought that some of their descriptions were wrong.
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Date: 2010-11-09 08:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-11-09 08:45 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2010-11-09 09:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-11-09 10:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-11-10 12:39 am (UTC)I think it is problematic interpreting facial expressions, without knowing what the particular faces look like in a resting state. For example, does the face always have certain wrinkles, or is the person actively making the wrinkles? Does the person normally have squinty eyes, or are they actively squinting?
Also, I'm skeptical of how they came up with the "correct" answers. I doubt they took photos of people and then asked them what they were feeling. The answers seem to be based on some kind of stereotypes... so the test determines how familiar you are with those stereotypes.
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Date: 2010-11-10 07:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-11-10 04:49 pm (UTC)I always felt that I was fairly good at reading people. I seemed to struggle with apologetic though, clearly not enough people have been apologising to me.