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Is it easier for you to tell men or women apart?
Obvious hypothesis: whichever gender you are attracted to, you will find them easier to tell apart.
It's easier for me to tell women apart because their hairstyles have more interpersonal variation. (I distinguish people mainly by hair. It takes a few months before I learn to recognize a face.) I'm pretty much just attracted to men though.
I don't really know. I'm attracted to women and if I look back most cases of confusing one person for another are cases where a dance Salsa with a woman for 10 minutes and then months later I see the same woman again.
I also use gait patterns for recognition and have sometimes a hard time deciding whether a photo is of a person that I have seen in person if I haven't interacted that much with the person..
As far as attraction goes it's also worth noting that I sometimes do feel emotions that come from having interacted with a person beforehand but it takes me some time to puzzle together where I did meet the person before. The emotional part gets handled by different parts of the brain.
Interesting point about the gait recognition. I had a acquaintance of the family recognize my father by his gait at a distance where I couldn't. Anyone else not recognize gaits? Does this vary by person?
If there's a difference (in how well I can discriminate between men versus women) I haven't noticed it. I am attracted to women much more than men.
What do you mean "tell apart"?
I mean how likely are you to mistake one for the other.?
I am bisexual, leaning toward liking men more, and sometimes women seem to me to look all the same.
However, if I'm introduced to two obviously distinct people, and their names have the same initial, it'll be months before I get who's who right.