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

[trynabme]

I need an account to do the quiz? Too bad

[piratesswoop]

i didn’t need one!

[anus]

I only could if I viewed it in incognito mode

[pikapika217]

I'm not doing that test because i have trouble recognizing coworkers - ones I see often - out of uniform and/or with their hair different/arranged differently so I for DAMN sure will fail this lol

In any case I don't need to recognize them, I just need them to do better and 🗣️ GET 🗣️ HIS 🗣️ ASS 🗣️ OUT!!

[thespockingdead]

Lmao I have trouble with that too. I mostly identify people by their hair, so if they change it, I’m fucked!

In college I had class with this girl who always wore a ponytail, and another class with a girl who had long curly hair. I sat next to one of them in four opposite classes over the course of two years. They were both very nice! Then one day, ponytail girl started talking to me about a class I was in with curly haired girl.

It was the SAME GIRL all along. Her hair was just different because I was seeing her on Tuesdays and Thursdays wearing her gym hair look. It never once occurred to me before that moment that both girls were the SAME PERSON. Most confusing day of my life.

[pikapika217]

oh NO! 😂

[ursusblack]

With a few adjustments, this could be part of a horror movie.

[kansascshuffle]

I wouldn't recognize my country's popular people, either, beyond the top of the top. I'm behind on currently popular actors and actresses because I don't watch tv anymore. And I listen to the radio news so I won't recognize politicians, either.

[sandstorm]

> correctly identify Beyoncé, for example, thousands thought she was Jennifer Lopez, Cardi B, Rihanna, Laverne Cox, Kim Kardashian or Ariana Grande

Give me race and age demographics of who thought she was any of these ladies.

My face blindness made me think Nick Kroll in a wig was a woman from Schitts Creek so who am I to judge.

[spoil]

Honestly, it probably was a lot of older people lol Although I think even my dad could recognize Beyonce as herself

[piratesswoop]

boomers who listen to 60 on 6 on sirius xm probably

[zibbydoo324]

Drag my mother

[asnindie]

Ugh Jefree Star. I wish I could forget who he was...

[lone_concertina]

My teenage sister was like "how do you know who Jeffree Star is, you don't care about makeup or youtube" as if he wasn't also a piece of shit on myspace when I was also a teenager. I don't understand how he's still around but I'm ready for that to go away.

[bruxelles]

I still can't believe that not only did Jeffree survive the Myspace days but people have made him rich af

[aeromi]

if anyone told my teenage self in the mid 2000s that jeffree star would still be relevant in 2020 i would have slapped them