tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37894952.post2048132664903837597..comments2023-09-06T03:55:53.012-07:00Comments on Nowhere to go but everywhere: I See Through YouMikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17198921079835614264noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37894952.post-29872158488763740072011-05-21T16:38:14.429-07:002011-05-21T16:38:14.429-07:00Jeff: Another interpretation presents itself. Per...Jeff: Another interpretation presents itself. Perhaps pessimists do judge well - in which case, you may be more pessimistic than me!<br /><br />Greg: I don't remember whether at the end of the test they revealed how they got the smiles, but I'm betting they kept a person's face on camera until they could tell a joke that elicited a genuine smile, then asked for a fake smile after, then picked one to use. The final page reveals that there were ten fakes and ten reals, so, like I said, my guess about the odds being stacked wasn't right. <br /><br />Two things occur to me:<br />1) Fake smiles aren't always malicious or deceptive. Often - this came up in the TED talk I mentioned, by the way - smiling is not about expressing happiness, but about causing it. It might be better to describe it as good-willed, or hopeful, not necessarily manipulative.<br /><br />2) Of course, you don't really know anything about a person if you've seen them smiling or faking it once. All that teaches you is what that person is doing and feeling in that particular situation. Any other judgment you make about the person's character is an extrapolation which can only be (in)validated over time. Not to mention that personalities and dispositions change over time, too, so that really being able to read someone's smile probably requires years of constant contact.Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17198921079835614264noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37894952.post-23905093005998472782011-05-21T00:34:13.614-07:002011-05-21T00:34:13.614-07:00I haven't looked at it but your thoughts have ...I haven't looked at it but your thoughts have me wondering about how subjective our view people can be. How can you really trust that your opinions of people are valid from a photo or from an impression. I've met fake people by the outlook who too out to be people I could trust. But if that's all we have to go on that's just what we have to rely on.<br /><br />Also what if they couldn't find a balance of people because most people everyone wears fake smiles to their bosses and their co-workers to be polite at the cost of sincerity? <br /><br />It's imitates the modern interpretation of Confucianism in which my co-workers smiles are not accurate judges of characters. <br /><br />If so, how can we really trust our first impressions if people are culturally insincere?Greghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11837267127455078280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37894952.post-84314565215083063402011-05-20T09:45:04.040-07:002011-05-20T09:45:04.040-07:00Damn! I got 19/20 right. Missed the guy with the g...Damn! I got 19/20 right. Missed the guy with the goatee, number 16 or 17 I think. <br /><br />Rated myself both penultimately optimistic and able to judge well.<br /><br />There were some creepy folks in that test...jorfnoreply@blogger.com