Facial Reading Test

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http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/03/well-quiz-the-mind-behind-the-eyes/

I got 28/36 correct. It says the average score is 22-30 correct responses out of 36.

19/36, not surprised. Would probably be even lower if not for my lucky guesses on a few of them. If anything, this certainly shows why I always seem to be unable to tell how someone is feeling without asking first.

32/36

20

My eyes were 20 /20
My perception a bit low.

10 out of 30. Most of the 10 were also guesses.

23/36. Barely within the average. It probobly helped that I studied emotion expression when I was more into animation.

3/36 If it wasn't for the options, eyes are only eyes to me.

20... and a lot of them were lucky guesses XD

The more extreme emotion ones were easier, the others idk what the heck they were supposed to be XD... some of them didn't even seem to fit any of the options XD

17, and I was guessing most of them. Imagine if it had not been multiple choice...!

i did not bother to do the test.
there are faces everywhere and they all seem to be inferring "me! me! me!"
to me it looks like most faces are aware of their expression to the point they are contrived, and so i think that most of them are fake.
pouting and quizzical expressions i always recoil from exploring. fake reverence and fake intensity and fake hospitality and fake whatever...

people always use their face to express themselves. their face is the most important thing in their minds.
i never remember my face and i usually have a blank expression.
well i will do the test out of curiosity...

32/36, but only because it was multiple choice and because I had a static picture that I had all the time in the world to examine and logic through. I have no idea where to start when looking at these; all the women look flirtatious and all the men look neutral except for the second one (the older person with the wrinkles and the triangle eyes), who I can tell looks sad or upset. But with the multiple choice, I can usually rule out three of the emotions because they just don't fit at all.

Most of the pictures are of a person with their face turned away and looking out the side of their eyes, towards the camera. And then they give you options like Ashamed (requires eyes down), Hostile (requires eyes and face straight forward, low eyebrows), Surprised (requires eyes straight forward, high eyebrows), or Thoughtful (the only one left, and even if it wasn't my first reaction, the markers fit).

I really like the show 'Lie to Me', where the main character is basically a human lie detector because he taught himself how to read peoples emotions based on micro expressions. They go into a lot of detail about the specific markers he's picking up on, which emotion they signify, and they use examples from history and media to show different examples of the markers.

it really depends on the personality and temperament of the person as to what likely expression they are wearing.
in all the pictures, i can imagine a different type of person having each of the suggested expressions. like some people smile when they are enraged to a bloodthirsty degree, and some people cry when they are happy etc.
some people just have wrinkles that make them look like they are wearing an expression when they are not.

24/36.

Low average range.

20/36, having a multiple choice helped me get that. My initial thoughts weren't choices most of time, so I went with best guess. Even if I disagreed, I went for the ones which I thought the person who made the test would've thought. Surprised I got that high tbh.

26/36. Interesting.

I think Dwarvyen is on to something. In real life you can't just freeze a person's expression and try to figure out what they might be feeling. It doesn't help that you encounter far more subtle eye movements than overtly, obvious ones.

The way I approached the test was to first look at the eyes alone and guess, which led to mostly wrong answers, and then look at the options which led to mostly right answers. I think there should be more options, or perhaps a timer on how long you can long at each picture. I feel it would give a more accurate result.