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**d000hg** · 12 October 2021, 12:32

You're doing well when do you don't know what the cabinet ministers look like. One has a beard too... I could see you getting two back-benchers mixed up because who knows who any of them are.

**_V_** · 12 October 2021, 12:55

**SueEllen** · 12 October 2021, 13:32

Originally posted by _V_ View Post

The good looking ones are the orangutans.

**Eirikur** · 12 October 2021, 13:38

That reminds me of this old one Bush vs Chimp:

**ladymuck** · 12 October 2021, 13:41

Getting people mixed up is something that happens to me quite often, more so since WFH all time, so can sympathise a bit (beards, glasses, other features don't necessarily help me remember what someone looks like).

It depends on whether he got mixed up because he thinks all [insert characteristic of choice here] look alike, and can't be bothered to make more of an effort. If he's just a bit crap then it's unfortunate but not unusual.

However, looking at some of the other stuff he's spouted, I suspect he's of the can't be bothered camp.

**Gibbon** · 12 October 2021, 14:20

Thing is, Own Race Bias (ORB) in facial recognition is a a scientific fact:

Frontiers | The Own-Race Bias for Face Recognition in a Multiracial Society | Psychology (frontiersin.org)

In summary, this cross-racial study demonstrates that ORB in face recognition remains evident not only in Western–Caucasian participants, but also in Malaysian individuals who live in a highly multiracial population. It appears that Malaysians’ substantial everyday exposure to different races does not necessarily help in developing a broadly tuned representation that accommodates multiple other-race faces. The results converge with existing literature to suggest that there is relatively little plasticity in face recognition in adulthood (e.g. Singh et al., 2017; Tree et al., 2017). Given the existing evidence that Malaysians interact with other races less when they are children (Kawangit et al., 2012; Su et al., 2018), the robustness of ORB in the multiracial population implies a relative lack of perceptual experience with other-race faces during childhood (de Heering et al., 2010; Su et al., 2018; Mckone et al., 2019; see also Sangrigoli et al., 2005). Additionally, the magnitude of ORB was modulated by the presence/absence of external features, such that other-race faces without external features were recognized poorly. This finding not only highlighted the significant methodological implications for ORB research, but also shed further light on the face representations and mechanisms that govern own- versus other-race face recognition. People encode and/or retrieve own- and other-race faces from memory in qualitatively different ways, with internal features of own-race faces being processed more effectively, whereas external features dominate representations of other-race faces.

However, once realised, a quick and sensitive apology should follow and be accepted.

**d000hg** · 12 October 2021, 14:57

Too many big words but from the title I'm assuming it says that as someone growing up in a very non-varied racial population, it's normal I find it harder to distinguish people of a different race. Which would appear to be somewhat common sense, in the same way that a farmer can tell all his sheep apart at 20m or a parent can identify their identical twins, whereas I would say "they all look the same" in both cases.

**GJABS** · 12 October 2021, 17:13

Originally posted by Eirikur View Post

That reminds me of this old one Bush vs Chimp:

Very comical.

I posted some chimps like this onto Facebook once - hilarity ensued. Then I posted the same chimps but with Obama instead of Bush. All hell broke loose lol..

**d000hg** · 12 October 2021, 18:16

Need to use a different animal. Giraffes maybe?

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