Face recognition test

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Recognition score: 87%

Temporal memory score: 76%

That's what I wanted to see. Like you said this test has absolutely nothing to do with autism directly but face blindness and focusing on one feature of the face (like the mouth in my case) would cause lower scores. From what I remember prosopagnosia affects about 2% of the population. I wanted to see if there is an unusually high percentage of people on WP that score low on this test. Again this test was for the general population and was not intended to have anything to do with autism directly, but it's a memory test that conveniently (for my purpose) uses faces.

I have face-blindness in real life, but I got a score of 100% / 87%, but I did not focus at the faces but at the visual contrast of each image, contrast of color of the shape in the foreground and background. So I did not focus in detail on one feature of the face but only on the conrast of the image in colour shades.
But this is not something that I can apply in real life, as fore- and background and the contrast in colour is permanently changing.

The only issue is that each of these photos was pretty striking and memorable, there were features such as hair cuts, ethnic clothing, cigarettes, glasses and angles that all made it pretty easy to remember.

I scored 83% (below average) and 70% (above average)

Jason.

Agreed. I scored 79% in recognition and 100% in temporal, but I was going almost entirely on each person's surroundings, clothing, and hair; not their faces.

I know and that's why the average for the recognition score is so high. But, as long as the control group and the WP group are taking the same test it shouldn't affect discrepancies between the two groups. The test itself was meant to look at temporal memory in connection with sleep deprivation. I'm more interested in the recognition memory and the fact that the average score is so close to 100% would indicate a low standard deviation. This way I can get a very rough idea of what percentage of people on WP are outside the norm and roughly how many standard deviations they are from the norm. Yes, I know I'm not using the test for what it was intended but the test is useful for what I was curious about.

I was hoping people would take the test by trying to remember the faces

Where to begin with it?
Faces have so many features and you'd had to pick out one feature, like for example the right eye and study it, but I doubt it'd be a solution to solve this test as time is limited.
But I got a good score in my own way.
It reminds me on the thread of the BBC4-program of autism, where the portraits are shown and I watched the eye of the girl and the colors blue, white and yellowish in it.
Her state I cannot tell, but this eye-image is printed into my brain

91 an 86 for me, although, I did forget about the test for twenty minutes before the questionnaire, haha.

Recognition score 95%
Temporal memory score 91%

Recognition score: 50% (average 92%)
Temporal memory score: 41% (average 68%)
False positives: 0

I don't have problems recognizing familiar faces BUT remembering faces I have just seen a fiew times in the first place.
I once did another faceblindness test and got high scores, because the faces where shown right behind each other and I had to choose the right one I have just seen.

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100%, 83%, 0 false positives

It's nothing like recognising faces though. I studied the backgrounds or clothing of most of them. If they were to show a picture of someone and then another on a different day, with hair tied up instead of down, wearing something different etc then I'd totally fail.

Recognition score
( if you saw it )

Your score: 90%

Average score: 92%

Temporal memory score
( when you saw it )

Your score: 68%

Average score: 68%

I'm the same as most of you, recognising whole pictures rather than actual faces. I did try to remember the faces and tried not to focus on photo composition, angles and colours, but those things automatically seeped into my memory. I have a good memory for things like that, but I can't remember faces. I scored really low in prosopagnosia tests and I always mix up characters in movies.

Yet I scored:

Recognition: 100%
Temporal memory: 62%

If they were to show me pictures of people with the same background and lighting, wearing the same coloured clothes, I would probably fail really badly.

Recognition 70%
Temporal memory 76%

0 false positives.