telling the difference between fake and real smiles

[sightless]

I was pretty surprised when i took this test and only got 60% right ): I really thought I was pretty good in finding out if someone is being genuine or not. o well variance.
I tried to look for indicators of the smiles being forced and got plenty of them wrong.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbo...es/index.shtml

Is anyone else easily fooled by the fake smiles in this test?

[mbillie1]

I got 14/20, so... 70%

Not awful I guess. That was an interesting test, some of the people just looked bizarre though. There were at least one or two alien lookalikes lol

[GooseHinson]

17/20. It's all in the eyes.

[RiverFenix]

14/20. Would be easier with a larger selection of more normal looking people I think.

[Homer]

13/20

[MicroBob]

Starting test right now.

The first two Q's involving 'overall outlook on life' and 'confidence level in distinguishing fake/genuine' are kind of weird though.

I rated myself 2nd highest on optimism and 2nd lowest on confidence I can tell the smiles apart.

[IggyWH]

13/20 and I even knew exactly what to look for, as they described at the very end.

[Spleen]

What asylum did they stage this test in anyway? 10/20 I'm a smile distinguishing fish.

[Klompy]

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[PoppinFresh]

16/20, I knew about the eye thing beforehand though