Americans don't recognise a lot of (their own) politicians & celebrities

[therearewords]

How readers did on Upshot's facial recognition quiz, and what we can learn from their mistakes. https://t.co/MdyCjT1keR
- The Upshot (@UpshotNYT) January 3, 2020

- Are you good at putting a name to a face? Depending on your age and media-intake, you might not be;

- NYT offered a quiz in which you had to put a name to 52 faces

Comments

[savannah_rose24]

Not surprised, but I went and took the quiz and if you spelled the name even slightly wrong they said it was incorrect. Even if you got the last name correct.

[piratesswoop]

i put “xu” then accidentally hit enter for xin jinping and it said close enough 💀

[weighty_ghost]

yeah, thats my problem too. if you put the first name (I wrote Greta only) and got 'close enough' but spelt Mitch McConnell wrong and got it wrong...

[tetrazzinichikn]

I put Greta Thurnberg and got it wrong. “President of Ukraine” was close enough, though. Wtf??

[picturemegone]

same I put Mitch McConnell (maybe I spelled it incorrectly) and it still said it was wrong

[waxandstrings]

mitch mcconell was one of the ones i spelt wrong that they didn't count too

[tadpool]

aw man, i should have only put in Greta. I forgot what her last name was and put in Gerwig lol

[jeff_koons]

Really? I misspelt a bunch of names and it said close enough and the answer went green

[loveumbrella]

same. how badly did people misspell then? :D

[nicholasdee]

Really? I misspelled klobouchar and xi jingping and I think I got Stacey abrams first name wrong (e or no e) and they gave me all of them.

[totteringg]

I misspelled one and they told me it was close enough. They also accepted just a last name for a bunch of them.

[savannah_rose24]

Some of them I put the last name and it accepted like Modi, but with Castro I spelled the last name right but put I think Juan for the first and it said wrong.

[prettyannamoon]

I figured that was Julian because he's more relevant, but wonder what would happen if you put in Joaquin? They might be more picky w/ the first name on that one, lol.

[savannah_rose24]

Lol. Now I'm curious what would've happen if someone put Joaquin.

[picturemegone]

I got everything right except for Mitch McConnell so I must have misspelled that because they marked that wrong but it should have been close enough