[hdra]

Am asian myself, got 6/18 too.

CJK people actually do look very similar anyway, which is not surprising as there are a lot of shared genetics.

The way people tell them apart is going to be mostly based on current popular fashion, which is quite difficult to do with these bust shots and what I'm guessing are older pictures

[johnzim]

Ditto (albeit Eurasian)

The problem is I put like 70% as Chinese, because I guarantee there's a Chinese person in the world who looks exactly like the portrait. China is so mixed that it's a total wildcard.

[jquery]

Yeah, none of these were obvious to me. China is an especially massive country and none of these people would look out of place in parts of China (I've seen every one of these facial types in China speaking native Mandarin). Most of the "signal" is gonna be from fashion, and/or the biases of the test-maker in what they choose to represent and how closely those faces match stereotypes.

[rf15]

lots of contact with asian people here, definitely all look different, watch japanese and korean dramas on the regular so should be able to tell at least those. 6/18, funniest thing was to me though thinking "oh you're definitely japanese" and being spot on twice. The biggest shortcoming on this quiz: not telling you the correct answer, or the site giving guidance/examples of their data set.

This website is just the author's personal judgment exercise.

[ljsprague]

>are older pictures

I am pretty sure it's 20+ years old. Just based on when I remember taking it.

[KPGv2]

https://web.archive.org/web/20021206055155/http://alllooksam...

Sep 14, 2001 it was taken out of beta.

I remember taking it as a freshman in college and getting well above random chance. 60–70% correct? A year later I took it with my sophomore roommate, from China. Again, 2/3-ish correct. He scored about random chance from what I recall.

I've always thought you could tell. Not 100% of the time; there's plenty of genetic mixing, Japanese people and Koreans share somewhat recent genetic history, Korea and China border each other, China is a ton of different ethnicities, etc. But certainly better than random chance if you've been around enough East Asians in your life.

I agree with a descendant above who said fashion is really useful. That's super true. I used to joke at uni that an East Asian wearing pastels was invariably Korean (this is very much NOT the case in SK these days). Japanese have had very distinct youth fashions for twenty years, as I lived there and witnessed them, and nowadays I can be across the playground with my kids and see a woman and immediately know by what she's wearing that she's from Japan.

China, being enormous, is a mixed bag.

That being said, there's facial structure stuff. It's kind of hard to put into words. It's a vibe you get. There's a university (Penn State or something?) that has a professor who puts his huge survey sociology class online. He talks about this, that early and constant exposure to some group(s) makes you better, for the rest of your life, and recognizing them. Has to do with attractiveness, too.

He brings white girls up to pick which Asian guy is the most attractive, and you can tell they really struggle to articulate it. But he brings Asian girls up and say exactly which one and explain why from his clothes, his facial features, etc.

It really is like if you aren't around (in this case) Asian people growing up, you have a kind of facial blindness where they alldolooksame.

[jongjong]

I'm white and got 7/18 and it said "You can't tell the difference" but I think it's because some of them I had no idea. There were a few where I was really sure and I turned out to be right.

I think it's the same with white people. There are some who look unique to their country and I can tell with high confidence but for others, I have no idea; they just look like a generic white person.

For example, I think these public figures look/looked very stereotypical for their country:

German: Otto Von Bismarck

English/Scottish: Hugh Grant, David Bowie, Winston Churchill, Maggie Smith

French: Napoleon, Jacque Chirac, Alain Delon, Gerard Depardieu, Francoise Hardy

American: Clint Eastwood, Abraham Lincoln, JFK

Swedish: Agnetha Faltskog

[ralusek]

Please find me an American, or other human being, that looks like Abraham Lincoln.

[true_religion]

https://www.buzzfeed.com/jonmichaelpoff/presidential-descend...

He had a family and their descendants naturally look like him.

[postsantum]

Inversely Amazing. Not easy to get all that wrong. Out of 18, you scored 3

lol