How's your face recognition?

[avanta7]

Yanked from annulla, who posted it in ChitChat:

Harvard College's Face Perception Test

Famous People

Out of 30 faces, you correctly identified 29.
You were familiar with 29 of the people in this test.

If we exclude the ones you were unfamiliar with, you got 100% correct.

On our previous version of this test, the average person with normal face recognition was able to recognize about 85% of the faces they were familiar with. If you missed more than half of the faces you were familiar with, this may indicate face recognition difficulties.

For more information about face blindness and other face recognition difficulties, please go to www.faceblind.org.


Old/New Faces

Out of 20 target faces (ones you studied in the first part of this test), you correctly identified 20.

Out of 30 nontarget faces (ones that didn't study in the first part of this test), you correctly responded that you had not seen 22 of them.

Overall, you got 84% correct

The average person with normal face recognition scores about 85% on this test. If you scored less than 75% on this test, this may indicate face recognition difficulties.

***Please note that a low score on this test does not necessarily mean you have problems with face recognition. Similarly, a high score does not necessarily mean you do not have face recognition difficulties.***

For more information about face blindness and other face recognition difficulties, please go to www.faceblind.org.

Comments

[grendel1031.livejournal.com]

I got 91%, but I was only familiar with 22 of the people involved.

Movie and television stars from the '90s on left me blank. Sure, I knew the names once they were given, but as for having seen them — nah! I also noticed the absence of sports figures; surely, if Nixon is on there, Mohammad Ali is clearly famous enough.