For anyone who missed the PM programme, they're looking for super-recognisers - people who never forget a face, can pick people out of a crowd on CCTV, etc. A bit of harmless fun courtesy of the University of Greenwich - I scored 9 out of 14, 10 being the threshold, so alas am not.
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Nine also. Apologies to the lads I sent down for a term in jail.It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world. -
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I got 12/14. The ones where you see the face head-on to start with, and have to pick it out from profile pictures, are buggers!
Also the 'multiple choice' photos were quite heavily distorted in terms of screen ratio - was that deliberate, or something to do with my screen?
It sort of confirms years of being the first to recognise well-known people in a crowd, or in passing on the street. The first time I was aware of it was in the 1980s when I realised instantly that the elderly chap at a neighbouring restaurant table was Marilyn Monroe's ex, Arthur Miller.
By coincidence I heard an amusing story today from a colleague about a first meeting with a client who had chosen to bring along a friend and confidant who was introduced as 'John'. My colleague vaguely recognised 'John' but couldn't place him, and only realised after the meeting that it had been former Prime Minister John Major
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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I got 10. I'd be interested to know which I got wrong, but they don't tell you.
But when the faces are as distorted as some of them were in the second pic, it's not entirely a matter of recognition, is it?Comment
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Quite. But jean, I got a final screen which did set out all the answers and show which were right and which were wrong...Originally posted by jean View Post"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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I didn't see nothing.Comment
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Originally posted by Caliban View Post
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Me too Cal - I knew when I was doing the test the ones that I'd got wrong - the last one for example - I got to the point where they were all looking the same - fun but a wee bit stressful.Originally posted by Caliban View PostComment
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I would have got 8, but one of the questions was faulty. On one of my second sets, the guy with the sunglasses wasn't even there.Originally posted by Beef Oven! View PostSeven.Comment
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Originally posted by Beef Oven! View Post
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Have you ever been a magistrate, FF?Originally posted by french frank View Post
I got 9, but I want a 450 mile drive today taken into account please.Last edited by teamsaint; 14-10-15, 19:20.I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
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It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.Comment
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10/14, which I'll take the liberty of considering pretty impressive since I'm diagnosed prosopagnosic (face-blind) and had to use the hairstyles to tell them apart...
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I can tell you from personal experience that they sit around slightly bored much of the time, looking for cases to try.Originally posted by french frank View Post No, wouldn't fancy that at all 
Probably plenty of time to catch up on the newspapers etc.
And likely on handsome expenses too.I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
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