Emotion-recognition test 'right answers' came from researchers voting on magazine photos
Aella_Girl · x · 2026-10-21
Aella highlights a fun fact from a clip of Nathan Fielder taking an autism test: the 'right answers' in emotion-recognition tests weren't based on what anyone actually felt. Researchers pulled photos from magazines and had a small group vote on the emotion shown; once they agreed enough, that became the ground truth. TheZvi pushes back, arguing the test measures whether someone interprets faces the way people commonly do, not who is objectively correct.
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