Where's The Smile?

Before watching this video (if you wish) take this quiz (it'll take about 10 minutes).

http://tinyurl.com/2u7sh

I apologize if my voice sounds a bit muffled. I felt obliged to use the low-pass filter since the neighbor's kids were screaming at the top of their lungs. Sorry. :-|

I also see that the focus briefly drifted out on two or three occasions. I blame auto-focus! :-P Maybe if I make another video like this, I'll set up a head rest so that I can't move, then fix the manual focus. Or maybe I just won't make another video like this one. ;-)

Just curious: did the single eye work well, or would it have been better if I had used a thin strip that had both eyes (but nothing else)?

Category:

Education

Tags:

• cousinomacul
• philosophy
• science
• perception
• face
• smile
• mouth
• evolution

[pyrrho314]

15/20 right, but I'm still looking at to how THEY know which is fake or not!

I look straight into their soul to see...

[CousinoMacul]

You should have been paying attention to the windows into their souls. :-P

[sientspirit]

I'll have to get my flash player uploaded so that I can take this quiz!

I first realized that the smile was not limited to the mouth when my orthodontist asked me to smile with my eyes. Before that, I had never thought of it.

[CousinoMacul]

I'm hoping most people will intuitively know that I'm smiling for the last few seconds of this video. :-)

[mishiXox]

I got 16/20 without watching your video first, I got that scored that based on the eyes.

[yaerav]

11/20... so, total failure. Typical for me to be so easily fooled, really ;-)

[EyeeShare]

I can't make the videos work either, but I am quite content with this one since there was a wink =D

Seriously, it was a bit annoying that the vids didn't work. I updated flash also. Am using firefox, but can't see why it wouldn't work with that browser.

[searenee]

18/20. Both of the ones I got wrong were the ones that I wanted to watch again, but it doesn't allow you to. And yeah, it was definitely the eyes I was watching for.

[AntiChristAntiFail]

your damn quiz wont let me watch the videos even with all the scripts allowed.

oh well.

[patflix]

14 out of 20.

[jessereid99]

am I the only person on a mac who can't make the vids work?

[2bsirius]

Exactly!

[MrFacet]

I also watched the smiles, had a medium score (14/20) and was wondering mostly: how do you get 20 videos starting and ending with a chagrin face and then inbetween smile controllably fake or real?

[healthyaddict]

Ha - I already know the answer to this. :P No flash on the computer, so I can't take the quiz.... next time...