Emotion in the Eyes test/how well do you read emotions?

[WoLong]

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/03/well-quiz-the-mind-behind-the-eyes/?_r=0

 

[Ex-User (9062)]

I scored 31/36.
But i have taken this exact same test on some other site a few months back and received a score of under 10/36.
Something was still in my memory cache.

 

[Grayman]

I got a 26. 7 wrong ones were women. I had a real hard time with the women since they had no wrinkles.
It is a hard when you cannot see the mouth or hear the tone of voice to determine feeling. It was a good challenge.

 

[Base groove]

The pattern for solving the women was extremely apparent from the very first trial.

>Pick the answer that is the most sexual<

That being said, I did score a measly 20 points.

 

[Ex-User (9086)]

29/36 Surprisingly my problems were with men. Women were pretty convenient to read.

 

[Grayman]

The pattern for solving the women was extremely apparent from the very first trial.

>Pick the answer that is the most sexual<

I noticed this after the test ended. Seems odd that the women were always concentrating on the topic of 'sexual' in the images as opposed to every day emotional situations. I wonder who was in charge of putting it together and deciding what images would be best suited for the test. Do you think the individual could be overtly attracted to women to the degree that they would be driven to always portray women in such a manner or was there some other purpose to disregarding the more common expressions among females?

EDIT: What's wrong that I cannot fix the quote?!

Thinking more on this test. What are the credentials of the person who put this together? Are these real expressions or acted ones? Who determined what these expressions really meant?

EDIT2: Maybe these were actually female actresses/models and they got to pick the expressions and they were used to these types of expressions and felt they had more to offer sexual expressions as modeling requires sexy since sexy sells.

 

[The Void]

25

 

[kora]

the answers for women were the most sexual ones. Do not like this. Maybe It's because they got the faces/eyes from adverts which are sexist to begin with? Otherwise there really is no excuse. scored 30.

 

[Ninety-Fourth]

26/36

I'm disgusted that women got most of the careless and flirtatious expressions, whereas men got all the thinky and confident stuff. That's a bad thing not only because it's sexist, but also because it establishes a pattern that allows test subjects to remove half the possible explanations before they even start examining the expressions. Highly unprofessional.

Also, not a single 'aghast' or 'terrified' response. Seriously? Is it so hard to get a shot of an arachnophobe looking at spiders?

 

[WoLong]

2/17 of the female faces had a possibly sexual expression. One was 'fantasizing' but didn't appear sexual, not all fantasies are of an erotic nature. None of the men wore an expression that was apparently sexual.

I actually got 33/36 this time around, but took it months ago and got 27/36. My face reading abilities have definitely improved, and I was using a crappy monitor before, but I went with the earlier one in case my second score was corrupted from taking the test previously.

whereas men got all the thinky and confident stuff.

One woman was 'confident.' One was 'decisive.' One was 'contemplative'. One was 'reflective.' These are in similar ratios to the male faces. The female faces were more likely to display fear or worry (5/17) compared to the male faces (3/19), and most angry expressions belonged to male faces.

 

[Ink]

23

I did have to do some googling on some of the words after I got them wrong though.

 

[Polaris]

35/36

Scored wrong on the doubtful female.

 

[JimJambones]

Apparently, hostile looking women have been flirting with me. Who would have thought?

I scored 23/36, but if I saw many of these in real life I would be unsure what specific feeling they may be experiencing. I usually break emotions into positive or negative ones and aren't as concerned with specific ones as it's hard to tell.

 

[Sim]

I scored 27/36

I didn't do particularly better or worse at reading either gender. 4 of the expressions I read incorrectly were female, while 5 of them were male.

 

[Brontosaurie]

this test is a joke

my score 25/36

 

[Reluctantly]

Doesn't this test for autism or something?

edit:
30/36