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What the? I thought I failed epically. My score came in at 30. Apparently I'm good at reading eyes but under-confident. Or maybe just good at multiple choice tests.
I didn't redo the test with mimicking. Doing it once stretched my patience for black and white eye looking at. Doing the same test again would make the relevance of a score improvement to mimicking negligible anyway.
I had a very similar experience with the exercise, thinking that I was going to get little better than guessing randomly, but instead got 29. If the explanation for this is that (neurotypical) people intuitively have the ability to read facial expressions due to evolution, why are my/our confidence levels low?
<sarcasm> Is... is it poor social skills making these skills rarely practiced? It could be, at least for me. </sarcasm>
Many (but not all) of the social difficulties associated with high functioning autistism can be attributed to a bias in attention. Going through life caring about the wrong things will leave you with a distorted skill base.
I know my confidence in the read was tied to the feeling that I was being constrained. Normally I would have more to go on than just the tiny little slit where the eyes are.