Comments on: Never forget a face? Take the test http://www.futurity.org/society-culture/never-forget-a-face-take-the-test/ Research news from leading universities Sun, 19 May 2013 22:40:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: nerf herder http://www.futurity.org/society-culture/never-forget-a-face-take-the-test/comment-page-1/#comment-282492 nerf herder Mon, 08 Oct 2012 17:17:57 +0000 http://www.futurity.org/?p=169292#comment-282492 It would be interesting to see if there's a correlation between face memory IQ and personality types: intro-/extroverts in general, and special cases like autism. As a typical introverted engineer with late-developing social skills, I sometimes have a hard time following a movie plot when they have similar looking women and I get the characters confused. The test confirms my face memory IQ is not good - I rank at 27%. Some people say they forget names but never forget a face. I know I forget both, but I'm pretty good with remembering a conversation. It would be interesting to see if there’s a correlation between face memory IQ and personality types: intro-/extroverts in general, and special cases like autism.

As a typical introverted engineer with late-developing social skills, I sometimes have a hard time following a movie plot when they have similar looking women and I get the characters confused. The test confirms my face memory IQ is not good – I rank at 27%. Some people say they forget names but never forget a face. I know I forget both, but I’m pretty good with remembering a conversation.

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