[HN Gopher] A Guide Dog for the Face-Blind
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A Guide Dog for the Face-Blind
Author : arto
Score : 19 points
Date : 2025-08-08 20:26 UTC (3 days ago)
(HTM) web link (asimov.blog)
(TXT) w3m dump (asimov.blog)
| tantalor wrote:
| > The test shows famous people with these features removed
|
| Article links to this test: https://www.testmybrain.org/face-
| blindness/face-blindness.ht...
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| But this isn't the "famous faces" test.
|
| I think they meant to link to this one:
| https://v3.testmybrain.org/digitallab/?study=digitallab_s4_2...
|
| That website does some funny stuff with sessions.
| simplulo wrote:
| Crikey, you're right. Thanks for that.
| coderintherye wrote:
| >Anyone reading War and Peace will need at the very least a list
| of characters
|
| Indeed, I almost gave up on it for that reason. Great story but
| does the character really need 6+ different ways to refer to
| them. "Too Like the Lightning" and its sequels are also great but
| Ada Palmer suffers from same of the same desires to refer to
| characters in far too many different ways to keep up with. That
| said, I also scored poorly on the face blindness test so maybe
| it's a cognitive inability keep up with too many names on my
| part.
| geoffpado wrote:
| Glad to see I wasn't the only one with that problem with the
| Terra Ignota series. I describe them to people as "my least
| favorite favorite books" since they're quite good, but
| infuriating to read.
|
| Brandon Sanderson is another who has started to dip into this
| well and it's annoying there, too. Do I really have to remember
| that this character is named this amongst this group of people
| and named another thing amongst another group of people? Often,
| it's never even really explicitly stated that these two
| characters are the same and you end up having to refer to some
| wiki that probably has spoilers just because you find yourself
| wondering "am I supposed to know who this is?"
| ajmurmann wrote:
| I think it's quite excusable in Russian novels, since that
| seems to be the natural way people address(ed?) each other in
| different contexts in Russian culture. A fantasy novel has
| little excuse though.
| CobrastanJorji wrote:
| > "You scored higher than zero out of every ten people who took
| this test"
|
| Oh no. This explains some things.
| ethersteeds wrote:
| I'm right there with you.
| lpghatguy wrote:
| I've long felt that I am face blind. I took the face blindness
| test with my girlfriend.
|
| I scored right in the middle, but she scored better than nine out
| of every ten people. How about that!
| bnjms wrote:
| Sometimes we learn we're just fortunate to be mediocre amongst
| remarkable people.
| amelius wrote:
| That opening image ... finally an article where the Corporate
| Memphis style fits.
| selimthegrim wrote:
| Is it just me or this sounds like a solarpunk book title?
| sixhobbits wrote:
| I think prosapagnosia is more common than people think. I thought
| I was just kinda dumb/incompetent for years before I learned it
| was A Thing.
|
| Once you understand it there are quite a few coping mechanisms. I
| recognize people by their gait, voice, and clothing in addition
| to the glasses, hair etc that the author mentions.
|
| I do think mine is somehow improving. I still scored badly but
| tbh I'm not really into celebrities so about half of them I
| either haven't heard of or I know about but have seen very
| seldom.
|
| --
|
| Your score ....................... 23
|
| Average score .................. 30.87
|
| You scored higher than zero out of every ten people who took this
| test: >
| Terr_ wrote:
| > Stunned, I said, "Wait--tell me about this," and he proceeded
| to explain prosopagnosia.
|
| Tangentially related: As a nearsighted kid--and _unaware_ of it--
| I would mentally catalogue what color clothes my friends were
| wearing in the morning so that I could improve my odds of finding
| them during outdoor recess.
|
| Naturally, the first time I got glasses was a: "Holy Moly you
| mean _everybody_ sees like this!? "
| OJFord wrote:
| I had a flatmate with this at university. On campus he'd totally
| blank me (different departments), like I'd left something awful
| in the sink. At home Hey y'alright how's it going like nothing
| had happened. Bit weird, but you get used to it.
|
| (Basically I just learnt to ignore him out of context too. It was
| only politeness that would otherwise incline me to acknowledge
| someone like that, so if they don't recognise me that just
| doesn't really apply, no need.)
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