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

[just444]

people thought Zelensky is Macron? what

[madamezuzu]

ugh this was meeeeee. white men are all the same. lol.

[rubie_dubidoux]

lol I was about to guess Medvedev but I was like wait he's definitely not relevant enough these days to be on this quiz

[aaronnyc89]

[krissasaur]

God. For American celebs I am trash. I grew up on Asian media, and I don't really watch TV or movies, and I barely read ONTD, and just check on it for the off chance I do know someone, or if something looks juicy. I also really appreciate an active LJ community still existing.

Politicians I recognize a lot of the names, but I don't really watch any news, only read about it, so identifying them by looks... I don't know if I could.

I got a 22.... which is expected. Most of which I had the reaction of "oh, thats what you look like." to.

[fellintothegap]

I answered 42 correctly. Apparently I can’t pull names out of the air for some of those generic white men that are still inexplicably running for the democratic nomination. And I’d consider myself pretty well informed.

When I can’t name them, does it suggest a problem with them or with the way the media has been covering the primary process?

[tetrazzinichikn]

Who, Bloomberg, Buttegieg and Steyer?? If you don’t know who they are I don’t know that I’d consider myself well informed.

[jeff_koons]

I knew Buttegieg cause he’s gay and had meme value byt had no idea how Bloomberg looked

[spellgabbana]

pretty sure they mean guys like bullock, delaney, and bennet.

[stephaniebrown]

i got 32. i got most of the US politicians (minus the obvious big ones) and sports stars wrong, but everything else i was okay with.

[__onthebound]

same

[tetrazzinichikn]

So I put in Xi Ping and that’s “good enough” but Greta Thurnberg is wrong and Make Zuckerberg is wrong? They’re called fucking typos, NYT!!!

[savannah_rose24]

This. I love the people replying to me with really? Like yes, a couple of other people mentioned how they were marked wrong even if they had one part of the name right.

I spelled Julian Castro's last name right, but think I put Juan for the first and it told me I had it wrong.

[autumnheartbeat]

Well I think Juan Castro is his brother so I can actually understand that one lol. But yeah, the other typo related errors were so silly

[x0sweetbliss]

his brother is joaquin so no, it's still very off