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Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 03 January 2016 05:52:10PM *  5 points [-]

In the LW Slack an online test by the Birkbeck University of London for prosopagnosia (face blindness) was posted and some took it. The Test says that 80% is population average and below 60% means possible face-blindness (and I guess 33% means random answers). The results posted in the LW slack show an average below 70% (for 10 values) and the hypothesis was offered that the LW populace in not neuro-typical in this regard. How about verifying this?

Take test test here.

My test result (give percentage points as reported by the test in range 0..100; use 80 if you absolutely don't want to do the test):

ADDED: This test takes about 20min according to its intro and some say that it takes longer (see below).

Submitting...

Comment author: seuoseo 03 January 2016 11:02:00PM 4 points [-]

I got 65%, but don't have the karma to vote.

Comment author: gjm 04 January 2016 12:38:35AM *  3 points [-]

I am about to submit an (anon) 65% vote to make up for this.

[EDITED to add:] Now done. (Of course the reason for the two-phase approach, as opposed to just doing it, was to minimize the risk of two people doing it concurrently.)

Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 04 January 2016 07:37:38AM 1 point [-]

For those reading only: The current state is 17 votes, median 67, mean 66.795. This is significantly below the population average. I wonder about the cause...

Comment author: Dardan- 04 January 2016 09:45:07AM *  1 point [-]

One person filled in a 0.51, but even corrected for that the mean is 69,76 (at 17 votes). My hypothesis would be that it has to do with the likely disproportionate percentage of users here that have Aspergers, something that is known to be associated with a poor ability to understand faces.

Comment author: username2 04 January 2016 01:00:00PM 3 points [-]

Wouldn't we see a bimodality if that was the case?

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