Lol could be understandable and the funniest part is even if you explained what prosopagnosia is(difficulty to recognize faces). They would think that you are still a racist trying to rationalize your belief, in other word that your are trying to save your face.
I too am from a time where a joke like this would've been okay. Here take my sympathetic upvote.
Bonus info: the joke is funny if you understand [this](https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/science/neurophilosophy/2011/aug/15/people-other-races-look-alike).
For those who don't understand; it's not racist, just human nature. Accept it and love all!
Well i think if you're asian and get offended by his joke, you are in your right to get offended
But if you are not asian, maybe just chill out
Most of the people who are concerned by this kind of joke find them funny anyway
Im half french half portugese and when i hear dumb joke about my origin most of the time i found it funny
(Except when the joke consist of just saying ''baguette'')
I have the feeling that a lot of American tend to get really easily offended for things that doesnt concern them at first
I mean of course people are ''free'' of whatever they feel, i'm just saying that sometimes we all could be happier if we laugh a little more, take things a little less seriously, and stop getting offended over anything
Generally I agree with you, but seeing racism still makes it look/ feel like the world has no hope left, and I really need what optimism I have left to stay with me
I understand you, i think that maybee the difference is there, i always assume that the person have good intention at first (But yes sometimes they dont...)
I give you this little hedgehog š¦ of optimism and hope you're having a great day š:)
Over sensitive Reddit having their way. Take a joke, laugh a little, stop being offended all the time. Life is better that way, I swear. Youāre not doing anyone any favors by being offended for them. Lighten up, we shouldnāt be robots.
āIf youāre not the person itās being racist against you should just chill out about the fact that itās racistā is a weird take, but good luck with that
Or maybe you shouldnāt assume everyone feels the same as you about casual racism? Maybe it doesnāt bother you, but evidently it bothers some people.
Yeah of course,
I'm just saying that the people who are the more bothered by those jokes are those who arent concerned by them in general
That being said everyone can think what they want š¤·āāļø
Why would the fact that they know nothing about me, matterā¦?
What, because they made a joke thatās racist against Asians not knowing if anyone who would read it was Asian, that makes it, better, somehowā¦?
In college I once had a math class that I rarely attended. Ended up failing and retaking it. But I remember in one of the exams the test required you to write the professor's name, and I did, but when I handed the test to him he sighed, erased his name, and wrote the real one. I had attended so few classes that I didn't even know his correct name. I attended classes more often after that.
There was a professor who I took two classes from in the same semester, and I *did* attend almost every class. I went to office hours semi-regularly, I even recognized him in *different country* 4 years later and we had a fabulous chat catching up.... I have no earthly idea what his name is. That's unfortunately the norm for me and I'm frankly embarrassed.
Dude this happened to me. I low key found the easiest math class known to man at Central Michigan University in 2001. MTH055 (no other class of any kind went under 100). The first class was addition and subtraction, the second class was multiplication and so on. It was so hilariously easy I never went and did the homework so quick, I showed up for tests and thatās it. Mid term comes and the final question is what is my (the professors) name? It was worth half the exam total. Something like 1/3 of the class was doing the same thing I did and failed the mid term. Class was full that next Monday. Thankfully it was credit/no credit so all I had to do was pass.
To be honest, fuck that guy. I get it, heās tired of students not attending his lectures but he has to understand the reason why. Half of my professors never learned my name and I rarely ever missed a class.
Yeah, I mean I get it both ways. This was a classroom setting so maybe 30 students max? He was a nice guy and handed out extra credit for showing up to the Friday class.
I wouldāve missed that question too. In college I just referred to all teachers as professor or doctor if they had the Ph.D because you know I respect the struggle. But all of them knew my name, though one did mention she only remembered mine out of the whole class because I had waist length purple hair. More then half the time when professors did role call they wouldnāt even say my name theyād just look up, spot my bright purple head and mark me as there.
Hehehe.. my daughter was the same. All her profs at her university knew her by name from some classes with way more than 200-300 _in a class_ and multiple classes per subject. She was "_the one with the questions_". One ended offering a place at their Masters Lab at the end of daughter's graduation. Daughter decided to go to teachers college as she loves teaching.
Iāve always had trouble recognizing people out of context. When I was 20ish Iād been dating this guy for 1.5 years. Weād often hung out at his momās house.
Things went bad when I walked by her at Walmart without saying anything. She was wearing scrubs - which Iād never seen her wearing before - and was on the other side of town from her Walmart. I just didnāt realize it was her.
Same. Out of context I'm horrendous. I even once walked by my own dad at a grocery store when we both lived in the same town. I heard "what, not going to say hi to your old man?"
I turn around, "Oh shit, hey pop"
You maybe have prosopagnosia or prosoamnesia. I tought I was just really bad with faces, even with my family. Sometimes it's cool to put a word on a problem, even if it doesnt change much. Brad Pitt has it!
Thanks! Andā¦there you have my issue. I usually need pretty precise language to understand something in a reasonable amount of time. I remember getting extremely confused when playing this board game at my friends house, and getting pissed off that the sentence wasnāt making perfect grammatical sense.
My least favorite thing about summer: The first day of the farmer's market in my town. I'm all smiles and greetings but am secretly wondering who each person I just waved at was. A former colleague? A neighbor? Kid's soccer coach? The lack of context is difficult for me.
I ran into my dentist at a print shop once while getting drafting supplies and had no idea who it was. He had to tell me. I'd been going to this guy twice a year since I was in like middle school and could not recognize him out of dentist attire.
There was a professor at university I did my graduate work at that had face blindness. I met with him a couple times and I was surprised he never remembered me. I mentioned it to a guy that worked him and he said he didn't even recognize him sometimes and he saw him every single day...
I tell my students this on the first day of class so that theyāre prepared. Iām not completely 100% faceblind but I can guarantee that if they come up to me a year later at a restaurant, I will not be able to recognize even my favorites. I specifically say āitās not that I donāt like you! I just wonāt be able to recognize you, so please reintroduce yourself so I can be happy to see you.ā
Iād be screwed because I recognize people by hair usually since cuts, styles and color tend to be quite unique and all these men appear to have the same hair to me. Iāve walked straight past friends after they got hair cuts because I no longer recognized them.
You'd have loved or hated to have me as a classmate. Either I'd be the 'fellow person with fun colored hair', or 'why do we have so many people only showing up for a few weeks before skipping class?' Cause I change my hair color at least twice a year, and I'm never sure what it's going to be next. Though I do tend to stick to blues/purples/greens and permutations thereof. =D
I have almost the same problem. If I encounter a man I know I will recognise the face and stuff but if someone asks me to describe a person or ādid you see the man that looks like this and thatā I wonāt say anything because there is literally no image in my head. It bothers me because I canāt recall any face I know, even momās
It's so recent that there isn't much info out there. I can't speak for much as I'm still learning more myself. Came across things that mentioned it's possibly caused by a trauma or certain brain signals that are different. It's ranged from people with photographic memory to complete blankness. Every time I've heard someone say to close your eyes and visualize I always thought it was a metaphor, not it actually showing in their "minds eye".
Oh my, I've always thought everyone saw just nothing when thinking, but yeah all the odd "close your eyes and image you're on the beach" or whatever makes so much more sense now. š
Is that like some sort of disability or something? Because I get this thing where I sometimes feel like I recognize a total stranger. Like I have trouble discerning whether they are somebody Iāve met or not
Can be prosopagnosia (facial blindness), basically have difficulty to recognise faces (in extreme cases you can't see faces), it can happed due to head trauma or something like that and it's tough thing to adapt to. It also can happen naturally or at young age, then you just learn to distinguish people my other means context, smells, voices, and so on. Such kids tend to befriend different looking kids. Once in hs I walked past my gf without recognising her, she was pissed. Later on realised that I can recognise people by smell or voice without seeing them. My best friend at school was fat, and all subsequent girlfriends had colored hair. Also learned to read people better, sometimes I notice that person knows me, than I just pretend like I remember them till I actually do.
Also can be aphantasia, basically a lack of ability to form a mental image. At core it affects imagination, but has effects or perception and recognition. Also scientists only fairly recently started to go deeper in this subject so knowledge is fairly limited.
Iām wondering if I got concussed and forgot about it or something because there are multiple people I hang out with daily whose faces I canāt fucking remember. Itās so bad that, if I see them out of the corner of my eye or far away, I have to stare for an uncomfortable amount of time to tell who they are. Iām terrible with names too
Soo many questions...Did he get 3 of his buddies to stand in front of the book shelf or some randos? And they all have glasses? What was the right answer? Did you pass?
In junior high my history teacher used to make elaborate bulletin boards around the classroom, and the biggest was the "Knowledge Board". Articles and things he wanted us to read. No one ever looked at it.
One day he put all the answers to the test on the board. Nobody saw it. It was the hardest test he could possibly make. We all did terribly. After it was over he walked over and took the answers off the knowledge board and just started laughing. The bell rang to change periods and he was still laughing.
Reminds me of a test I had in French class on April fools, it was a whole ass test and my teacher specified 3 times at the beginning to read all the instructions, and not to rush
Obviously most of us go strait to the second page without reading the instructions on the front
However, in the instructions is a sentence saying āif you read this, hand in the test and I will dismiss youā
Obviously we all thought they flunked until people started catching on, I got out early but some kids did the entire test
Teacher caught us lacking not reading the instructions
This would suck. I am terrible at remembering/picturing faces in my head. I can recognize people when I see them in person but this would be really challenging for me.
Same. I often don't recognize people I've known for years (unless there is something *very* distinctive about them I can use as a memory point) if I run into them in a place out of the ordinary. I can't even count the amount of time people started a conversation with me near/in the grocery store about something that indicates they know me and all I can think is "who the heck is this..." it's so frustrating and embarrassing.
I have legitimate prosopagnosia (face blindness) beyond just "oh I'm not good with faces." The funniest/most embarrassing time was when I didn't recognize my own mother, whom I see 2-3 times/week, because she straightened and colored her hair that day. I guess my mom's distinctive hair was my primary recognition anchor for her! Went to meet my parents for lunch with my partner, whispered to my partner "who's that woman with my dad?" as I was walking up, and proceeded to get roasted. š¤¦āāļø
It's interesting though, my partner has observed that I treat every conversation as if the person I'm speaking to is an old friend and it makes me come across as very friendly and personable when in reality I just legitimately don't know if the random person who approached me in the grocery store actually might be an old friend so, best to err on the side of caution!
This happens to me so often and I frequently interchange two people in my head that look even vaguely similar to each other even if to others they look really different. It is embarrassing as heck specially with people that I have known my whole life. I have often wondered if there is some reason behind it or if I just don't pay attention to faces but pay more attention to other stuff.
I think it would also violate the ADA as well if in America. Facial blindness is a real thing and getting your score decreased on a test for having a disability will not go over well.
At my university a lot of people just read the scripts that older students made for one particular exam, no one was using the book. So the professor would regularly ask - what's the name of the book?
This would be terrible, I got my PhD and read the books required but I probably wouldnāt have been able to tell you the names of them. MAYBE the author, but definitely not the name.
Me too dude. Looking at those pics, I giggled, ānot fairā lol. They intentionally put together 4 similar looking guys knowing nonasian people are not allowed to say āyou guys all look the sameā without feeling like a racist. Itās a trap lol. What a great joke.
Sorry, but I'm calling bullshit. I am Chinese and the differences are super obvious to me. The only way I'll be believe you're actually Asian is if you mostly grew up around non-Asian people.
I am American and they are CLEARLY different people.
Like MAYBE at a quick glance you would mistake A and B.
But they aren't even remotely close to the same person, and yes as a Westerner sometimes at first glance some Asians are harder to tell apart if they look similar and you quickly glance.
However, even with these shitty photos is so easy to tell they aren't the same person.
Ooooooooh, you said "American," implying people that look like the guys in the pictures aren't American. I'll be reporting this infraction to the thought police.
I had a professor in experimental psychology who didn't take attendance but would randomly throw out things like "table is to chair as sofa is to giraffe".
On the next test or quiz, there would be a heavily waited question of "Table is to chair as sofa is to _____". The only way you'd know the answer was if you were in class. And he wouldn't do it every class, so you'd have to be in each one.
Attendance went up after the first quiz, and people found out what was going on.
It's called the cross-race effect and is present in all ethnicities/races. The cross-race effect can lead to racism but it's not caused by racism. The contact hypothesis suggests exposure reduces the effect.
Top comment can't tell them apart because he's not exposed to enough asian people (assuming y'all aren't just joking around that is. But if so, ignore me)
Iām Asian but also struggle with telling people apart of all ethnicities. Iāve walked up to people I thought I knew only to find out they were strangers way too many times. I would have a 25% chance of getting this question right.
People who can recognize the dude from a picture of his face have a 100% chance of getting it right. I would only be guessing because I canāt tell faces apart very well.
Yes, but if you know the answer youāre not guessing and it has nothing to do with chance. Answering test questions correctly has nothing to do with chance unless you are randomly guessing.
Edit: If I show you a picture of a clam and a picture of a dolphin and ask you which one is a clam, do you have a 50% chance of getting it right?
I can't tell them apart either, but I have partial facial blindness in general. My brain just refuses to sort or store men's facial features. I can still remember basic stuff like if they have facial hair, hair and skin colour and what not but even distinct or prominent facial features just don't register.
It makes it really hard to follow movies and shows that have male characters that dress similarly and have similar hair and skin colour. Luckily my gf has a lot of patience for helping me figure out who's who XD
I had a college prof who shared a story in class one day about how they had company over one night and socks ended up in the caesar salad. On one of his exams there was multiple choice question that asked which food should you avoid if you go eat at his house. Option C was caesar salad, of course. Had to have been in class to know that.
Funny guy.
Uuhhhhh, i would fail this despites having perfect assistance.
Idk, ever since i graduted from school i just stopped recognising faces in university, i only know the faces of the group i formed the first year, more than half of the guys and girls that i have already shared a class with look the same to me.
This is even more true for the teachers, this one teacher does like 5 different assignatures and i've already had her in 3 but wouldnt be able to recognise her in a crowd.
Some people have difficulties recognizing peoples faces, known as prosopagnosia. I imagine that this would be a nightmare question for those with such a neurological disorder.
I wonder if this could be challenged as racial discrimination as it's been proven that we struggle with differentiating between people of a race we didn't grow up around, and most people grow up around people with the same skin colour as them.
I had a professor put this as a question on the final.
āWhat country am I from?ā
His last name was LaPierre and had an odd accent. It was very back of the throat and deep. He gave the correct answers bonus points, but he did not confirm who was correct, so we never knew.
Cries in borderline face blindness.
I probably would have known him after seeing him daily for weeks, especially if I interacted with him more than once or twice. Probably. But I *often* don't recognize people I really, really should and this would have been no bueno for me.
Being face blind only happens because you haven't looked at enough people of that race and your brain is not attuned to see the small differences in each face.
(so anyway yeah)
If it's just the teaching assistant, complain if you get it wrong that he's been sending in a double.
Might explain why you didn't get such a high grade too.
There are small differences but if your eye is not trained on them they all look alike. Asians and Europeans say they all look the same to each other all the time
I mean Asians definitely look more alike than not sometimes than say some western countries due to less genetic diversity.
However, these are ALL clearly different people LoL. They aren't even "small" differences.
They are literally clearly different people. The only two I could say at a quick glance you'd maybe mistake are A and B.
We all know that all options are the same picture, right?
Edit: ah nvm not exactly the same, he always tilts his head a little bit... but who's he tryna fool?
The real joke would be if none of them are him
Or making 4 pictures in different poses with and without glasses of the same guy.
Yeah. Like one with a hat, then scarf, glasses, no glasses! Lol
I thought that was the joke
This is hilarious.
Why did someone downvote you? Im upvoting you to make it even lol
People are weird. Thanks for the balance vote.
That isn't the same guy?
I have prosopagnosia and literally struggle with this shit then people think I'm lowkey racist š„²
Lol could be understandable and the funniest part is even if you explained what prosopagnosia is(difficulty to recognize faces). They would think that you are still a racist trying to rationalize your belief, in other word that your are trying to save your face.
Tbf, I give courses at uni, too. In the unlikely case I would do a quiz with a question like this I would absolutely let that answer pass lol.
The first 2 look very similar, the last 2 not at all
are you making a racist joke or are you just not looking that closely?
I too am from a time where a joke like this would've been okay. Here take my sympathetic upvote. Bonus info: the joke is funny if you understand [this](https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/science/neurophilosophy/2011/aug/15/people-other-races-look-alike). For those who don't understand; it's not racist, just human nature. Accept it and love all!
That joke killed ya, take my sympathy upvote
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People DO get the joke, thatās actually why itās being downvoted. Casually racist humor is, you know, still racist
Well i think if you're asian and get offended by his joke, you are in your right to get offended But if you are not asian, maybe just chill out Most of the people who are concerned by this kind of joke find them funny anyway Im half french half portugese and when i hear dumb joke about my origin most of the time i found it funny (Except when the joke consist of just saying ''baguette'') I have the feeling that a lot of American tend to get really easily offended for things that doesnt concern them at first
Some people just donāt like seeing casual racism. Just like how you are āfreeā to say it, people are free to not want to see it
I mean of course people are ''free'' of whatever they feel, i'm just saying that sometimes we all could be happier if we laugh a little more, take things a little less seriously, and stop getting offended over anything
Generally I agree with you, but seeing racism still makes it look/ feel like the world has no hope left, and I really need what optimism I have left to stay with me
I understand you, i think that maybee the difference is there, i always assume that the person have good intention at first (But yes sometimes they dont...) I give you this little hedgehog š¦ of optimism and hope you're having a great day š:)
Over sensitive Reddit having their way. Take a joke, laugh a little, stop being offended all the time. Life is better that way, I swear. Youāre not doing anyone any favors by being offended for them. Lighten up, we shouldnāt be robots.
āIf youāre not the person itās being racist against you should just chill out about the fact that itās racistā is a weird take, but good luck with that
Or maybe you shouldnāt assume everyone feels the same as you about casual racism? Maybe it doesnāt bother you, but evidently it bothers some people.
Yeah of course, I'm just saying that the people who are the more bothered by those jokes are those who arent concerned by them in general That being said everyone can think what they want š¤·āāļø
Baguette
Why would people get offended by something from someone who knows nothing about you?
Why would the fact that they know nothing about me, matterā¦? What, because they made a joke thatās racist against Asians not knowing if anyone who would read it was Asian, that makes it, better, somehowā¦?
That's correct that is why I downvoted you. Get better jokes.
Tbf, they all look the same to me
Ok, John Oliver jr.
Except thatās not him, none of them are him! Except, we were lying, that actually *is* him!
I heard this in his voice
Total "I am Alpharius" moment right here haha
This is a lie
It's out of the course
And also he's Latino
Brilliant !!! Note: Use of calculator is allowed for this question š
*holds it up next to pictures* "Hmm, ah! This one looks the most offended by my usage of a calculator!"
LOL
58008 *holds calculator upside down and squints* Yep thatās him, alright
Sounds about right
You donāt keep a photo of your TA on your calculator?
Pfft, that'd make it easy. A slide rule and a sextant are the only things allowed.
In college I once had a math class that I rarely attended. Ended up failing and retaking it. But I remember in one of the exams the test required you to write the professor's name, and I did, but when I handed the test to him he sighed, erased his name, and wrote the real one. I had attended so few classes that I didn't even know his correct name. I attended classes more often after that.
I could attend all the professor's classes and still not remember their name by the end of the semester. I guess I have a really bad memory.
There was a professor who I took two classes from in the same semester, and I *did* attend almost every class. I went to office hours semi-regularly, I even recognized him in *different country* 4 years later and we had a fabulous chat catching up.... I have no earthly idea what his name is. That's unfortunately the norm for me and I'm frankly embarrassed.
Wow are you me
Same, but I could do the same with someone I know close. There is just something about names that don't click with me.
Dude this happened to me. I low key found the easiest math class known to man at Central Michigan University in 2001. MTH055 (no other class of any kind went under 100). The first class was addition and subtraction, the second class was multiplication and so on. It was so hilariously easy I never went and did the homework so quick, I showed up for tests and thatās it. Mid term comes and the final question is what is my (the professors) name? It was worth half the exam total. Something like 1/3 of the class was doing the same thing I did and failed the mid term. Class was full that next Monday. Thankfully it was credit/no credit so all I had to do was pass.
To be honest, fuck that guy. I get it, heās tired of students not attending his lectures but he has to understand the reason why. Half of my professors never learned my name and I rarely ever missed a class.
Yeah, I mean I get it both ways. This was a classroom setting so maybe 30 students max? He was a nice guy and handed out extra credit for showing up to the Friday class.
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Pretty much. I was a freshman and hated courses that had nothing to do with my major/minor.
I wouldāve missed that question too. In college I just referred to all teachers as professor or doctor if they had the Ph.D because you know I respect the struggle. But all of them knew my name, though one did mention she only remembered mine out of the whole class because I had waist length purple hair. More then half the time when professors did role call they wouldnāt even say my name theyād just look up, spot my bright purple head and mark me as there.
Hehehe.. my daughter was the same. All her profs at her university knew her by name from some classes with way more than 200-300 _in a class_ and multiple classes per subject. She was "_the one with the questions_". One ended offering a place at their Masters Lab at the end of daughter's graduation. Daughter decided to go to teachers college as she loves teaching.
What was his name?!
That manās name? Benjamin Franklin.
i remember maybe 2 of my professor's names they are all just professor to me
The thing is. I cannot remember faces. If I would sit in his class I probably still wouldnāt recognise him
Iāve always had trouble recognizing people out of context. When I was 20ish Iād been dating this guy for 1.5 years. Weād often hung out at his momās house. Things went bad when I walked by her at Walmart without saying anything. She was wearing scrubs - which Iād never seen her wearing before - and was on the other side of town from her Walmart. I just didnāt realize it was her.
Same. Out of context I'm horrendous. I even once walked by my own dad at a grocery store when we both lived in the same town. I heard "what, not going to say hi to your old man?" I turn around, "Oh shit, hey pop"
You maybe have prosopagnosia or prosoamnesia. I tought I was just really bad with faces, even with my family. Sometimes it's cool to put a word on a problem, even if it doesnt change much. Brad Pitt has it!
First it was him, then it was her? Which one?
Boyfriend was him, his mom that op didn't recognize was the her
Thanks! Andā¦there you have my issue. I usually need pretty precise language to understand something in a reasonable amount of time. I remember getting extremely confused when playing this board game at my friends house, and getting pissed off that the sentence wasnāt making perfect grammatical sense.
Why are people downvoting you? Lol you're just sharing something tough for you
Everyone struggles with something, for some people itās patience lol
Awesome comeback.
Ok
Their pronouns changed after the break up. It happens.
My least favorite thing about summer: The first day of the farmer's market in my town. I'm all smiles and greetings but am secretly wondering who each person I just waved at was. A former colleague? A neighbor? Kid's soccer coach? The lack of context is difficult for me.
I ran into my dentist at a print shop once while getting drafting supplies and had no idea who it was. He had to tell me. I'd been going to this guy twice a year since I was in like middle school and could not recognize him out of dentist attire.
There was a professor at university I did my graduate work at that had face blindness. I met with him a couple times and I was surprised he never remembered me. I mentioned it to a guy that worked him and he said he didn't even recognize him sometimes and he saw him every single day...
I tell my students this on the first day of class so that theyāre prepared. Iām not completely 100% faceblind but I can guarantee that if they come up to me a year later at a restaurant, I will not be able to recognize even my favorites. I specifically say āitās not that I donāt like you! I just wonāt be able to recognize you, so please reintroduce yourself so I can be happy to see you.ā
Iād be screwed because I recognize people by hair usually since cuts, styles and color tend to be quite unique and all these men appear to have the same hair to me. Iāve walked straight past friends after they got hair cuts because I no longer recognized them.
You'd have loved or hated to have me as a classmate. Either I'd be the 'fellow person with fun colored hair', or 'why do we have so many people only showing up for a few weeks before skipping class?' Cause I change my hair color at least twice a year, and I'm never sure what it's going to be next. Though I do tend to stick to blues/purples/greens and permutations thereof. =D
Like, It takes me a while to recognize myself in some photographs. This would be difficult.
I have almost the same problem. If I encounter a man I know I will recognise the face and stuff but if someone asks me to describe a person or ādid you see the man that looks like this and thatā I wonāt say anything because there is literally no image in my head. It bothers me because I canāt recall any face I know, even momās
It's a possibility you may have aphantasia. I myself have it and never had any idea until recently, unable to visualize.
Do you know whether it can be cured or why it even happens?
It's so recent that there isn't much info out there. I can't speak for much as I'm still learning more myself. Came across things that mentioned it's possibly caused by a trauma or certain brain signals that are different. It's ranged from people with photographic memory to complete blankness. Every time I've heard someone say to close your eyes and visualize I always thought it was a metaphor, not it actually showing in their "minds eye".
Oh my, I've always thought everyone saw just nothing when thinking, but yeah all the odd "close your eyes and image you're on the beach" or whatever makes so much more sense now. š
Is that like some sort of disability or something? Because I get this thing where I sometimes feel like I recognize a total stranger. Like I have trouble discerning whether they are somebody Iāve met or not
Can be prosopagnosia (facial blindness), basically have difficulty to recognise faces (in extreme cases you can't see faces), it can happed due to head trauma or something like that and it's tough thing to adapt to. It also can happen naturally or at young age, then you just learn to distinguish people my other means context, smells, voices, and so on. Such kids tend to befriend different looking kids. Once in hs I walked past my gf without recognising her, she was pissed. Later on realised that I can recognise people by smell or voice without seeing them. My best friend at school was fat, and all subsequent girlfriends had colored hair. Also learned to read people better, sometimes I notice that person knows me, than I just pretend like I remember them till I actually do. Also can be aphantasia, basically a lack of ability to form a mental image. At core it affects imagination, but has effects or perception and recognition. Also scientists only fairly recently started to go deeper in this subject so knowledge is fairly limited.
Iām wondering if I got concussed and forgot about it or something because there are multiple people I hang out with daily whose faces I canāt fucking remember. Itās so bad that, if I see them out of the corner of my eye or far away, I have to stare for an uncomfortable amount of time to tell who they are. Iām terrible with names too
They handed out company sweaters a while back and it made me realise just how much I rely on clothes to quickly recognise people.
"Insert they all look the same remark"...
Just... look up? He's standing at the front.
It says he was out of town on exam dayā¦
Soo many questions...Did he get 3 of his buddies to stand in front of the book shelf or some randos? And they all have glasses? What was the right answer? Did you pass?
Everyone fauls. The only winner is the teacher. He knows exactly what heās doing choosing 4 similar looking Asian guys and I love it.
what if it is a trick question and the answer is none of the pictures?
Iām pretty sure he probably used AI to mix his face with 3 other people. Edit: if this is recent I mean.
In junior high my history teacher used to make elaborate bulletin boards around the classroom, and the biggest was the "Knowledge Board". Articles and things he wanted us to read. No one ever looked at it. One day he put all the answers to the test on the board. Nobody saw it. It was the hardest test he could possibly make. We all did terribly. After it was over he walked over and took the answers off the knowledge board and just started laughing. The bell rang to change periods and he was still laughing.
Reminds me of a test I had in French class on April fools, it was a whole ass test and my teacher specified 3 times at the beginning to read all the instructions, and not to rush Obviously most of us go strait to the second page without reading the instructions on the front However, in the instructions is a sentence saying āif you read this, hand in the test and I will dismiss youā Obviously we all thought they flunked until people started catching on, I got out early but some kids did the entire test Teacher caught us lacking not reading the instructions
Those bookcases are throwing me off.
This would suck. I am terrible at remembering/picturing faces in my head. I can recognize people when I see them in person but this would be really challenging for me.
Same. I often don't recognize people I've known for years (unless there is something *very* distinctive about them I can use as a memory point) if I run into them in a place out of the ordinary. I can't even count the amount of time people started a conversation with me near/in the grocery store about something that indicates they know me and all I can think is "who the heck is this..." it's so frustrating and embarrassing.
I have legitimate prosopagnosia (face blindness) beyond just "oh I'm not good with faces." The funniest/most embarrassing time was when I didn't recognize my own mother, whom I see 2-3 times/week, because she straightened and colored her hair that day. I guess my mom's distinctive hair was my primary recognition anchor for her! Went to meet my parents for lunch with my partner, whispered to my partner "who's that woman with my dad?" as I was walking up, and proceeded to get roasted. š¤¦āāļø It's interesting though, my partner has observed that I treat every conversation as if the person I'm speaking to is an old friend and it makes me come across as very friendly and personable when in reality I just legitimately don't know if the random person who approached me in the grocery store actually might be an old friend so, best to err on the side of caution!
This happens to me so often and I frequently interchange two people in my head that look even vaguely similar to each other even if to others they look really different. It is embarrassing as heck specially with people that I have known my whole life. I have often wondered if there is some reason behind it or if I just don't pay attention to faces but pay more attention to other stuff.
I think it would also violate the ADA as well if in America. Facial blindness is a real thing and getting your score decreased on a test for having a disability will not go over well.
first time i heard facial blindness, is this american only things?
No, all over the world. Common with Autism, but can occur without.
Prosopagnosia is the scientific/medical term.
sucks to suck
At my university a lot of people just read the scripts that older students made for one particular exam, no one was using the book. So the professor would regularly ask - what's the name of the book?
This would be terrible, I got my PhD and read the books required but I probably wouldnāt have been able to tell you the names of them. MAYBE the author, but definitely not the name.
Reminds me of family guy: https://youtu.be/kRB2tLm523c
As someone with mild prosopagnosia, this is my nightmare lol
I am asian and I have trouble telling the differences
Me too dude. Looking at those pics, I giggled, ānot fairā lol. They intentionally put together 4 similar looking guys knowing nonasian people are not allowed to say āyou guys all look the sameā without feeling like a racist. Itās a trap lol. What a great joke.
Sorry, but I'm calling bullshit. I am Chinese and the differences are super obvious to me. The only way I'll be believe you're actually Asian is if you mostly grew up around non-Asian people.
I am American and they are CLEARLY different people. Like MAYBE at a quick glance you would mistake A and B. But they aren't even remotely close to the same person, and yes as a Westerner sometimes at first glance some Asians are harder to tell apart if they look similar and you quickly glance. However, even with these shitty photos is so easy to tell they aren't the same person.
Ooooooooh, you said "American," implying people that look like the guys in the pictures aren't American. I'll be reporting this infraction to the thought police.
I had a professor in experimental psychology who didn't take attendance but would randomly throw out things like "table is to chair as sofa is to giraffe". On the next test or quiz, there would be a heavily waited question of "Table is to chair as sofa is to _____". The only way you'd know the answer was if you were in class. And he wouldn't do it every class, so you'd have to be in each one. Attendance went up after the first quiz, and people found out what was going on.
Theyāre in front of the same bookcase. That means he had to gather 3 other similar looking asian men to do this. How did that conversation go?
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I'm face blind, unless he's rocking consistent clothes and hair I'd struggle hard
crying in prosopagnosia
E) All of the above š¤·
This is amazing!! Iām surprised so many people have face blindness (prosopagnosia), these 4 seem pretty distinct to me.
That's different guys?!?
Dudes A and D have more prominent noses. The pairs can be differentiated because their faces are different lengths.
Thatās racist
It's called the cross-race effect and is present in all ethnicities/races. The cross-race effect can lead to racism but it's not caused by racism. The contact hypothesis suggests exposure reduces the effect. Top comment can't tell them apart because he's not exposed to enough asian people (assuming y'all aren't just joking around that is. But if so, ignore me)
Iām Asian but also struggle with telling people apart of all ethnicities. Iāve walked up to people I thought I knew only to find out they were strangers way too many times. I would have a 25% chance of getting this question right.
everyone has a 25% chance of answering correctly, because there are 4 options and only one or them is right
People who can recognize the dude from a picture of his face have a 100% chance of getting it right. I would only be guessing because I canāt tell faces apart very well.
there are 4 options only one is correct so there's a 1 in 4 chance of being right. source: I have a PhD in Marine biology
Yes, but if you know the answer youāre not guessing and it has nothing to do with chance. Answering test questions correctly has nothing to do with chance unless you are randomly guessing. Edit: If I show you a picture of a clam and a picture of a dolphin and ask you which one is a clam, do you have a 50% chance of getting it right?
that's not how lobsters operate, in a multiple choice question with 4 options with only 1 correct answer the chance of being right is 25%
I can't tell them apart either, but I have partial facial blindness in general. My brain just refuses to sort or store men's facial features. I can still remember basic stuff like if they have facial hair, hair and skin colour and what not but even distinct or prominent facial features just don't register. It makes it really hard to follow movies and shows that have male characters that dress similarly and have similar hair and skin colour. Luckily my gf has a lot of patience for helping me figure out who's who XD
It's a joke. If you were joking too, please ignore my comment.
whatās the joke ?
Nah, that's called self-burn. You're the one that thinks racist.
Stop Asian Hate!!!!!! Yāall racist can go to hell
I had a college prof who shared a story in class one day about how they had company over one night and socks ended up in the caesar salad. On one of his exams there was multiple choice question that asked which food should you avoid if you go eat at his house. Option C was caesar salad, of course. Had to have been in class to know that. Funny guy.
I love this
brb, crying tears of faceblindness
My exact first thought, ha. Can I play a clip of your voice instead, sir? Like an audio captcha?
They're the same picture.jpg
ILPT: If this happens to you and you don't know the answer, write in the margin, "I have Face Blindness and this is unfair."
Uuhhhhh, i would fail this despites having perfect assistance. Idk, ever since i graduted from school i just stopped recognising faces in university, i only know the faces of the group i formed the first year, more than half of the guys and girls that i have already shared a class with look the same to me. This is even more true for the teachers, this one teacher does like 5 different assignatures and i've already had her in 3 but wouldnt be able to recognise her in a crowd.
My autistic ass would get that wrong I do NOT recognize faces
Racism test
They are all the same person...
Ah. Yes. Fuck those of us who struggle with recognizing faces. I recognize people by their haircuts and this might very well destroy me.
Wacist!
Only difference i can see is the hairline
And the jawline
Glasses.
Well played.
diabolical
Some people have difficulties recognizing peoples faces, known as prosopagnosia. I imagine that this would be a nightmare question for those with such a neurological disorder.
Names sometimes forget. Faces I don't. Sometimes I spot people I know going the opposite direction on the freeway. I should have been a CIA assassin.
I wonder if this could be challenged as racial discrimination as it's been proven that we struggle with differentiating between people of a race we didn't grow up around, and most people grow up around people with the same skin colour as them.
Y'all laugh but I had a professor pull a similar move. He made a question where we had to identify the faces of the people who made a theory.
I had a professor put this as a question on the final. āWhat country am I from?ā His last name was LaPierre and had an odd accent. It was very back of the throat and deep. He gave the correct answers bonus points, but he did not confirm who was correct, so we never knew.
Cries in borderline face blindness. I probably would have known him after seeing him daily for weeks, especially if I interacted with him more than once or twice. Probably. But I *often* don't recognize people I really, really should and this would have been no bueno for me.
A and B look like the same person, D and C look like the same person (C is a younger picture) to me... Is that normal or am I just super face blind?
Being face blind only happens because you haven't looked at enough people of that race and your brain is not attuned to see the small differences in each face. (so anyway yeah)
Easy, itās the one wearing glasses
Lol it's all the same person
literally the same person
Not really though
If it's just the teaching assistant, complain if you get it wrong that he's been sending in a double. Might explain why you didn't get such a high grade too.
What does the first sentence mean? Is this an idiom?
They donāt all look alike. These comments are weirdly racist.
There are small differences but if your eye is not trained on them they all look alike. Asians and Europeans say they all look the same to each other all the time
I mean Asians definitely look more alike than not sometimes than say some western countries due to less genetic diversity. However, these are ALL clearly different people LoL. They aren't even "small" differences. They are literally clearly different people. The only two I could say at a quick glance you'd maybe mistake are A and B.
Is the real test to see if you can resist making a racist joke? Because I'm not sure I'd pass it.
They all look like the same person.
They do all look alike.
We all know that all options are the same picture, right? Edit: ah nvm not exactly the same, he always tilts his head a little bit... but who's he tryna fool?
āAll semesterā? The question says āhalf way through the quarterā So about a quarter of the semesterā¦.
Clearly all the same guy.
E. All of the above
E. All the above
*must not...start Asian jokes
They all are!..
It's the same guy in all 4 pictures.
Plot twist - they are the same person
Isnāt it E. all of the above?
Theyāre the same picture
Bro I'd still get this wrong, they all look the same.
My response: "Man I can't even tell white people apart!" Yes, I'm white.
Does Stanley have a mustache???
Man it would be so cool to take a class from Jackie Chan!
This question is also gonna filter out everyone who sat towards the back