So, I just took an online test from the Prosopagnosia Research Center at Harvard University and University College London. In it, they check your ability to recognize faces, objects and how well you do with verbal recognition.
I won't give away the tests, in case you want to try them. I figure that would skew the results. However, I found my results extremely interesting.
For facial recognition, I got a near perfect...96%. That puts me in the top 88% of everyone who has taken the test so far. I didn't do quite as well for the object recognition. Apparently, I'm totally average at that...I'm in the 50 percentile.
But, for the verbal recognition portion of the test, I only scored a 33%...less than 1% of everyone who took that test did worse than I did!!! So...WTF? Do I have some kind of mental problem where words don't register with me? I've always noticed that names go in one ear and out the other, but I never figured I was in the bottom 1% of the world!
I'm kind of freaking out about this!
Someone else take the test! Tell me what you think!
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Hey Troy,
Well, I took the test too, but I did a little better on the verbal recognition test, Overall, you got 83% correct! Your percentile rank on this test was 65.. Did anyone ever give you the advice to say a name (or word, or whatever) three times to help remember? That has always seemed to work for me.
Sherri
Yes, that is decidedly better than I did!
I found the results really interesting. As I said, I always knew I had memory issues, but that was ridiculous. If anything, this has brought the issue to the forefront of my mind, and I'm going to try and follow advice like yours from now on. Constantly using the person's name when introduced ("Nice to meet you Sherri. What brings you here tonight Sherri?"), repeating it over and over...
Anyway, thanks for the comment! (I love comments!)
Troy,
I just took the test.
Face Recognition: 80% correct / 28th percentile
Object Recognition: 92% correct / 75th percentile
Verbal Recognition: 75% correct / 48th percentile.
na ner na nah boo boo
stick your head in doo-doo
See!?!!!! Even MOJO does better than me at that stuff!?! You KNOW I've gotta have some kind of brain damage or something NOW!!!
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...er, no offense, Mojo. =)
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