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marxeil
08-09-2004, 08:23 AM
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/mind/surveys/smiles/

You see 20 persons smiling, and you have to guess if the smile is genuine or fake.

I got 8 out of 20 :(

At the end there's an explanation on how to identify a fake smile. Very handy!
Jamie Madigan
08-09-2004, 09:05 AM
Only 10 out of 20 correct here. And I was actually looking for the tell-tale signs that they discuss at the end!
mtkafka
08-09-2004, 09:13 AM
16 out of 20... only looked at the eyes!

etc
XPav
08-09-2004, 10:41 AM
Find the fake fake smile topic.
BrewersDroop
08-09-2004, 12:53 PM
18 / 20. Interesting study, thanks.

edit: just noticed that the study was done at the Psych dept of the University of St Andrews. They've actually done a lot of very interesting work on cognitive aspects of facial recognition. I did my doctorate in that department though in a completely different field -- neural networks.
Bub, Andrew
08-09-2004, 01:50 PM
#13 just scared the heck out of me.

17 of 20. I mainly watched how they came out of their smile. That's can be really telling.
Duality
08-09-2004, 03:16 PM
17 of 20. I mainly watched how they came out of their smile. That's can be really telling.
That's what I did when I took this a while back.

I think I got about the same result, as well.
BobJustBob
08-09-2004, 04:10 PM
I got 16 out of 20, but I was 100 percent sure that the older middle-aged woman was faking it. I think they failed their own test.
Wholly Schmidt
08-09-2004, 04:35 PM
WHAT IS #13?!
Warlord of Mars
08-10-2004, 01:44 AM
WHAT IS #13?!

Heh. I think it's a woman. She/he fooled me, too. Bastage.

I got 17 out of 20 correct. My secret was watching the eyes.
croman
08-10-2004, 01:57 AM
You got 14 out of 20 correct

I blame it on my browser. (I guessed on tons because Firefox blasted through some of the smile animations)


:D
DTG
08-10-2004, 05:20 AM
18 out of 20.

But then again, they're all sitting in a studio and being told to smile for the camera and then get serious again. How can any of them be "real" smiles?
Kalle
08-10-2004, 05:31 AM
13/20 for me.

Better than expected.
Jason McMaster
08-10-2004, 10:45 AM
14 for me
Bwah
08-10-2004, 11:33 AM
But then again, they're all sitting in a studio and being told to smile for the camera and then get serious again. How can any of them be "real" smiles?

I'm guessing they were shown a funny clip or something like that.
Aleck
08-10-2004, 07:57 PM
It's easy to pick out the fake smiles. Fake smiles look like these:

http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/homepage/hp8-10-04h.jpg
beecubed
08-10-2004, 08:54 PM
:lol: