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Posted by 7dk2h4md720ih on Tue May 25th at 9:41pm 2004

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/mind/surveys/smiles/

See if you can tell wether their smiles are genuine or not. I got 17/20, but I missed one so there's a possibility I could have gotten 18. It tells you how to differentiate after so it could come in handy. Post your scores!

Ps: Some of them have strange heads. [addsig]



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Posted by Campaignjunkie on Tue May 25th at 9:57pm 2004

A mere 14. I think some of it can be attributed to whether you find them attractive or not though. But yeah, I guess I'm pretty bad at reading people's faces. Why doesn't PBS ever have anything interesting like this?

[edit] Attractive Brits exist! I read about them in my fairy-tale book.

They really did have some ugly people there though. Of course I'll think their smiles are fake. Except that guy with the giant gap in his teeth.

[addsig]



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Posted by 7dk2h4md720ih on Tue May 25th at 10:05pm 2004

You may be crap at reading peoples faces, but at least you're honest. 14 isn't bad though, especially if you're not completely sure what you should be looking for.

[edit] Attractive? They're brits!

*cowers* [addsig]



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Posted by Tracer Bullet on Tue May 25th at 10:09pm 2004

14/20

some of those people were damn uguly!





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Posted by Biological Component on Tue May 25th at 10:25pm 2004

10/20

and most of these people were damn ugly

[addsig]



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Posted by 7dk2h4md720ih on Tue May 25th at 10:30pm 2004



*considers changing thread title to spotting hermaphrodites* [addsig]



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Posted by ReNo on Tue May 25th at 10:30pm 2004

16/20, but most of them were total guesses Like A_S I missed one, didn't realise you could only press play once! [addsig]



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Posted by Leperous on Tue May 25th at 10:45pm 2004

What a freak parade- 2nd only to the Gallery Of Horror on this website At least I got the difference about *monkeys* right without even knowing.





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Posted by 7dk2h4md720ih on Tue May 25th at 10:53pm 2004

Don't post how to tell you spoon [addsig]



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Posted by Leperous on Tue May 25th at 11:01pm 2004

If it saves people the grief of seeing these freaks, then why not?!



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Posted by 7dk2h4md720ih on Tue May 25th at 11:04pm 2004

I nearly choked on a cracker reading that. (A cream cracker as opposed to a white person). Looking at those people builds character and tests your gag reflex! [addsig]



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Posted by Gwil on Tue May 25th at 11:06pm 2004

Why is the BBC showing people how to judge one another using very basic psychological/scientific principals?

UBER ISOLATIONIST RACIST FASCIST SELF CENTRED SOCIETY, ROCK ON!

[addsig]



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Posted by KungFuSquirrel on Tue May 25th at 11:12pm 2004

16.

I didn't use any of the methods listed there, actually, and it worked pretty well. But I won't tell anyone unless you really want to know, since A_S seems to have issues with that [addsig]



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Posted by Tracer Bullet on Tue May 25th at 11:16pm 2004

Obveously, since most people got better than 10/20 people have a natural ability to spot fake smiles without the aid of any specif ic ques. I just wnt on my gut feeling.



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Posted by Crono on Tue May 25th at 11:36pm 2004

I've personally found it easier to tell whether a woman is faking or not (Don't even try it). Since I don't look at men smiling too often (or ever). [addsig]



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Posted by Kage_Prototype on Tue May 25th at 11:42pm 2004

? quote:
I've personally found it easier to tell whether a woman is faking or not (Don't even try it).


Bah. Spoil sport. [addsig]



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Posted by 7dk2h4md720ih on Tue May 25th at 11:44pm 2004

Oregon must be a pretty dismal place if the guys don't smile that much.

I wonder what the people in the pictures were actually smiling at...? [addsig]



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Posted by Black Cat on Tue May 25th at 11:57pm 2004

I had a gf once that when mad woude speak in a british accent.

And no she was not british and has never gone there.





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Posted by Finger on Tue May 25th at 11:58pm 2004

I went with my gut, and got 18/20. One thing that I noticed, is when the smile seemed genuine, it looked like they had to fight a little to 'tuck' it back in; like the camera man cracked a joke, then said "ok..now stop smiling". The fake smiles just seemed like a smile 'switch' was turned on, then off.

Oh..and how spoiled we are by all the gorgeous people on television. Those people looked pretty average to me.





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Posted by Hornpipe2 on Wed May 26th at 12:12am 2004

6/20, but then I had no idea what I was supposed to be judging - I thought I was picking between real and computer simulated smiles, not the way it really worked. [addsig]




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