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I kind of implicitly assumed we are not talking about missing the obvious stuff (like someone staring at you angrily in a 1 to 1 conversation). That would probably best be explicitly learned by flashcards.

Everything but basic emotions has a lot of hidden states and the tracking becomes much more of a thing. But that state is not all that hidden. You actually know a lot about the people in your life. 
The hard part is coming up with enough hypotheses and not separating true from false. I call it to myself 'generating social conspiracy theories' to get r... (read more)

The test scores me as 'normal' with 29/36. I remember doing a similar (maybe the same) test and scoring decidedly below average about two years ago.

I understand the attraction of having this skill trainable in its own context like flashcards but consider it a false shortcut.  I think it is more about directing attention. 

Setting aside a few cycles of my attention to practice in every day life worked for me and I think it should be wildly superior to treating it as a problem of categorizing features.

1. You get so much more context to infer fr... (read more)

I tried similar things more than once. 
It is just as frustrating as learning to not let attention wander when meditating, but on a bigger time scale.
Edit: Also just as worthwhile I hope

The vagueness of your observations makes your question completly meaningless.