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20 April 2008

I got 13 out of 20. I'm curious as to how they generated these smiles under testing conditions.
posted by Miko 20 April | 08:44
16/20. The genuine ones seemed like they were laughing at a joke.
posted by matthewr 20 April | 09:33
I got 15 out of 20.
posted by gaspode 20 April | 09:38
14/20, although there was one I marked a fake by mistake.
posted by essexjan 20 April | 09:39
15/20 here as well. I did much better at the end than at the beginning. I think if they'd had 5-10 practice smiles, I'd have had a higher score.
posted by Stewriffic 20 April | 09:47
My strategy for the last 10 or so was to only watch the instant they started to smile, and immediately look away and decide purely on instinct. With the first few, I watched the whole video and ended up debating with myself whether it was fake or genuine, and as a result did less well.
posted by matthewr 20 April | 09:48
I got 15 out of 20 too. My sister got 20/20!
posted by LoriFLA 20 April | 10:14
16/20- I kept thinking real smiles were fake ones.
posted by small_ruminant 20 April | 10:40
3 years ago I would have had the opposite problem. The last couple years have turned me into a cynical, mistrusting human being. Ugh. Note to self: work on that
posted by small_ruminant 20 April | 10:49
Do you guys feel that the advice at the end is helpful? I can't see the outside tip of the eyebrow moving at all in a lot of them. Let alone analyse the movement of the eye cover fold...
posted by jouke 20 April | 11:56
18/20. I was sooo not expecting such a high score. I think there was lots more head movement going on in the real smiles.
posted by casarkos 20 April | 12:35
19/20. It's in the eyes, folks.
posted by deborah 20 April | 12:39
20 out of 20! My fake-spotting skills are unstoppable!

And yeah, the whole key is the eyes. Not only do the real smiles involve crinkling around the eyes, the real smilers seemed invariably to blink at least once (and those who blinked more than once did it in an irregular pattern). Most of the fake smilers didn't blink, or they blinked in a regularized way, even if they put a little eye crinkling into the mix.
posted by scody 20 April | 13:22
16/20...and I was paying attention to the eyes, but there were a few I wasn't sure of. Huh, the blink.
posted by brujita 20 April | 13:58
I saw my friend's baby when she was ten days old...it's said that smiles that young are "just gas" but it was in her eyes too when she finally opened them and looked at me.
posted by brujita 20 April | 14:11
15 out of 20 here, too. The eyes help me, but I wavered on a few.
posted by redvixen 20 April | 16:21
18/20 -- I totally didn't expect a high score.

This is actually a bit disturbing to me, because so many smiles do strike me as fake. I usually just tell myself I must be bad at telling the difference -- all these people around couldn't be fake-similing so often!
posted by treepour 20 April | 18:36
18/20, and one of those, I hesitated, thought it was real, but put fake. Only one really fooled me - it was fake and I said real. Both misses were dudes, if that has anything to do with it.
posted by rainbaby 20 April | 22:37
Ugh. I'm doubly screwed with no EQ and no poker face. Thank goodness for emoticons. :P
posted by Skwirl 21 April | 18:13
Would somebody please make these for me right now? || So have any of y'all tried Rifftrax

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