Are you a super recogniser? Here's a test.

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24 Aug 2016, 2:21 am

I know some people on the spectrum have prosopagnosia but at the opposite end of the face recognition there is super recognition. This is something I've just discovered I score really high at. Very surprised as I have a very bad memory. Here's an article and test. Post your results http://www.iflscience.com/brain/theres- ... right-now/

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24 Aug 2016, 2:39 am

I only scored 11.

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24 Aug 2016, 3:02 am

JakeASD wrote:

I only scored 11.

"Only" 11 is a really good score

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24 Aug 2016, 4:50 am

5/14 and the 5 were me recognizing a detail such as nose or eye shape and even then I wasnt sure because they could cut the nose and the eye shape could be facial expression.
I have prospagnosia.

Do the questions even have correct answers? Most of the time the guys in answer were not even similar to the one in original photo.

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24 Aug 2016, 5:10 am

I got a 3 and I'm going to credit the correct answers to being lucky guesses.

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24 Aug 2016, 5:26 am

10/14

i think i'm about average when it comes to recognizing faces. sometimes i recognize faces in unexpected situations, but sometimes i don't recognize people when i'm supposed to, and sometimes i "recognize" people who are actually someone else (mostly when i'm sleep-deprived)

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24 Aug 2016, 5:43 am

"You scored 12 out of 14. "

It started out easy but got harder when they started switching from front to profile, and you had to figure out how the guy you only saw from the front would look from the side; yikes.

I'm very visual, and I do see memories as pictures and videos, so faces tend to stick in my mind, except I have one "blind spot" and that's when it comes to men with shaved heads or bald heads. I find it very hard to tell hairless men apart. So if the super-recognizer test had bald or shaved head men in it, I would have probably scored a 2! I seriously have trouble without hair framing a face.

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24 Aug 2016, 6:02 am

I scored 10.

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24 Aug 2016, 7:22 am

Online quizzers are harmful to the mentally ill who use it to hide their true disability

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24 Aug 2016, 7:48 am

11/14.

I wonder why these tests seem to use exclusively male pictures.

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24 Aug 2016, 9:29 am

JakeASD wrote:

I only scored 11.

"This one goes to 11"

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24 Aug 2016, 9:54 am

anagram wrote:

Names I'm terrible but I'm ok at this kind of test.

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24 Aug 2016, 10:46 am

I only scored 7. I'm not a "super recognizer."

I don't tend to recognize people out of uniform if they are usually in uniform.

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24 Aug 2016, 12:56 pm

6 which is higher then I expected. 14 is not a large enough factor to rule out luck.

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24 Aug 2016, 1:06 pm

Got 5, with only 1 answer where i was really sure. Wow, i didnt thought im "that" bad wih faces...

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24 Aug 2016, 4:36 pm

11/14 yet i cant recognise my own family most of the time, and forget what they look like, seriously, ive been given a picture for this very problem

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