People can match names to faces of strangers accurately
Most of us can guess the name of a stranger with up to 40 per cent accuracy, a study has found. This is because people grow to look more like their name, subconsciously changing their hairstyles, putting on weight, smiling or frowning. For example, society generally expects men called Bob to have rounder faces than those called Tim, because the word looks round. Can you beat the researchers' computer algorithm top score of 64 per cent accuracy in matching the names of strangers to their faces? Each correct match is worth 16.6 per cent.
Feb-27-2017, 15:35:03 GMT
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