an exercise in face recognition faces will be presented to you first upside down and then right side...
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An Exercise in Face RecognitionFaces will be presented to you first upsidedown and then right side up. Try to keeptrack of the number you correctly identifyin the upside down position and then thenumber you correctly identify in the rightside up position.
Oprah Winfrey
Simon Cowell
Angelina Jolie
Johnny Depp
Michelle Obama
Brian Williams
Barbara Walters
Oops, just wanted to see if you are payingattention!!!
Joe Biden
Paul Ryan
Meryl Streep
Albert Einstein
Hillary Clinton
Chesley B. “Sully” Sullenberger III
Nicole Kidman
Shaquille Rashaun O'Neal
Princess Kate
Justin Timberlake
Sandra Bullock
William Shatner
Miley Cyrus
Harrison Ford
Beyoncé Giselle Knowles
Michael Jordan
Jennifer Lopez
Justin Bieber
Taylor Swift
Sean Connery
Recognition of upside down faces is more difficultthan you thought, isn’t it? Don’t be concerned butadd the number of correct identifications forupside down and right side up. According tothe Internet site, http://www.faceblind.org/facetests/,the average score on their similar online test is 87%.For this test with 26 questions, 87% is 22.6.People with a condition called prosopagnosia havedifficulty recognizing faces and in extreme form,cannot recognize any faces.
For some additional interesting images,please continue to observe.
Pictured here are__________ and __________
Clinton and ClintonWith 2 different hair styles.
Are these two faces the same?
Is this a person?
Uh, Oh! Not everything is as it appears. Sometimesthe brain does not interpret information correctly.In this and in many other cases, interpretationdepends on perspective.