Smiles: Genuine or Fake

[rostasi]

Smile Survey

[DTMX]

I got 15 of 20 correct. That's a lot better than I thought I would.

[Spontooneous]

13 for me.

[Guy Berger]

12

[Chalupa]

12

[Guy Berger]

1) I'm too lazy to calculate it. How many do you have to get correct out of 20 to reject the hypothesis of pure luck at 95%? (I'm guessing that 12 could easily be generated by pure luck.)

2) On the flipside, I wonder if there are people who get this thing methodically wrong; in other words, if they pick "genuine" it's "fake" and vice versa.

Guy

[connoisseur series500]

13

I brushed through them and quite frankly had no idea as I selected. It seemed a crap shoot.

[Eric]

15 (real or fake?)

[Jazzmoose]

I'm stunned. I got 18 out of 20. The eyes give it away to me. Then again, maybe I'm just used to people pretending to laugh at my moronic jokes...

[Tom Storer]

Shit, I only got 11 right. Which means, in line with what guy said, that I have no idea and am only guessing. Among the ones I got wrong were about an equal number of genuine and fake, so I'm not systematically misinterpreting.

For me the lesson of this is that at a certain level of personal interaction, I'll just have to trust people, since obviously second-guessing them won't do me much good! And since that's already the way I operate, I won't have to change a thing.

[Stereojack]

17 out of 20 for me. Some of them were pretty obvious, others I couldn't tell.

[porcy62]

  Jazzmoose said:

I'm stunned. I got 18 out of 20. The eyes give it away to me. Then again, maybe I'm just used to people pretending to laugh at my moronic jokes...

Right, I got 18 too, looking straight in the eyes.

Edited June 18, 2007 by porcy62

[MoGrubb]

14 out of 20 right

I was paying more attention to the expression they settled into after the smile, rather than the eyes during the smile. The eyes are a give away if you know a person, if not, it's pretty iffy.

[porcy62]

  MoGrubb said:

14 out of 20 right

I was paying more attention to the expression they settled into after the smile, rather than the eyes during the smile. The eyes are a give away if you know a person, if not, it's pretty iffy.

Maybe you're right, after what GWB said about Putin.

Edited June 18, 2007 by porcy62

[catesta]

17 of 20, but I suspect all of them were faking.

[RDK]

16 out of 20. Better than I expected.

I have to admit, I thought this was gonna be a smilie survey. In that case, I figured I'd at least be able to do better than Chuck.

[Big Al]

15

[Ted O'Reilly]

So far, I win:

Spot The Fake Smile

Results

You got 18 out of 20 correct

(It's in the eyes, I say...)

[Ted O'Reilly]

Jazzmoose and Porcy, 18 of 20 too.... (Sorry, I meant the "I win" reference to some others off-forum....)

[Alexander]

19 out of 20. I found that if the eyes participated in the smile, it was more likely to be genuine. The face they settled into afterward was a dead giveaway, too. When the smile went back into a completely neutral face, it was fake.

[J Larsen]

  Guy said:

1) I'm too lazy to calculate it. How many do you have to get correct out of 20 to reject the hypothesis of pure luck at 95%? (I'm guessing that 12 could easily be generated by pure luck.)

EDIT: There was a silly mistake in my stata code. The correct answer is 15 correct for 5% significance.

At 12 you are at the 25% significance level.

There are enough people getting scores higher than 10 that I think it is pretty clear that a joint test turn out statistically significant.

Edited June 18, 2007 by J Larsen

[mikelz777]

I'm a pretty bad reader I guess. I got 11 the first time I did it and only 10 the second time! Even my daughters aged 11 and 13 did better than me with 12 and 15 correct picks.

[jazzbo]

15 correct.

Some were tough!

[Jim R]

17.

I missed #'s 5,

10,

and 16.

Face #13 may keep me awake tonight.

[catesta]

Noen of them were much in the looks department.