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Nothingtosay
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United States875 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-05-02 01:03:21
May 02 2011 00:49 GMT
#1
http://www.pbs.org/race/002_SortingPeople/002_01-sort.htm

This game has you sort people into ethnic groups based upon their picture. I admit that the pictures are most likely intentionally small but for the most part it should help demonstrate to you how "race" is social construct that varies between cultures and individuals.

EDIT: lol you can click on the pictures to make them bigger.
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nennx
Profile Joined April 2010
United States310 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-05-02 00:51:59
May 02 2011 00:51 GMT
#2
I think it just shows you how hard it is to tell people apart from really far away.

Terrible test.

Edit: Oh, you can click on them to see them bigger :D
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Chesner
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Iceland817 Posts
May 02 2011 00:51 GMT
#3
Pretty lame to have the pictures this small :/
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MutatedMiracle
Profile Joined July 2010
Canada80 Posts
May 02 2011 00:53 GMT
#4
Guys it says click on the photo to enlarge it right there in the instructions. <_<
iamho
Profile Joined June 2009
United States3347 Posts
May 02 2011 00:54 GMT
#5
There's no way four of these people are black..
ShadowDrgn
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States2497 Posts
May 02 2011 00:56 GMT
#6
Got 5 right, no better than random guessing. Pretty hard when the pictures are tiny and most of them are intentionally misleading.
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sc4k
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
United Kingdom5454 Posts
May 02 2011 00:57 GMT
#7
Haha, well, I don't know. It seems they picked some of the most 'in between' and deliberately confusing faces they could find. I remember walking down the street in Atlanta and I could very easily tell who was black, mexican or white lol.
micronesia
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States24676 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-05-02 00:59:48
May 02 2011 00:59 GMT
#8
On May 02 2011 09:54 iamho wrote:
There's no way four of these people are black..

Why? Black doesn't mean they look like they are 500th generation central Africa... Tiger Woods is half Asian.
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aimaimaim
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Philippines2167 Posts
May 02 2011 00:59 GMT
#9
lol .. Those guys have like racial mixing. That's cheating!
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Rtran10
Profile Joined February 2011
Canada78 Posts
May 02 2011 01:01 GMT
#10
its hard because they are all mixed. Got 7 out of the total.
Nothingtosay
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United States875 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-05-02 01:04:00
May 02 2011 01:02 GMT
#11
The problem with a hispanic latino category is the fact that all the other "races" there fit into. Latinos are conglomerate of european native american and african descendents. Also seeing as native americans are the closest group to asians genetically some of them look very similar.

Still I think most of the people on TL would call some filipino people mexican if they saw them walking down the street.
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Whiplash
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
United States2928 Posts
May 02 2011 01:04 GMT
#12
That was actually pretty cool, I like the point they wanted to get across with the little minigame.
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Indrium
Profile Joined November 2010
United States2236 Posts
May 02 2011 01:05 GMT
#13
The whole thing is just using intentionally ambiguous-looking people to make a point about ethnicity. I feel like I'm missing the point somehow.
Dystisis
Profile Joined May 2010
Norway713 Posts
May 02 2011 01:05 GMT
#14
On May 02 2011 09:59 aimaimaim wrote:
lol .. Those guys have like racial mixing. That's cheating!

Pretty much everyone have "racial mixing" though. The point is that the concept of "pure races" is extremely unhelpful; humans are a single race.
Irave
Profile Joined October 2010
United States9965 Posts
May 02 2011 01:07 GMT
#15
Managed to get 9 out of 20 correct, this is just setup to have you fail
ampson
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States2355 Posts
May 02 2011 01:10 GMT
#16
I got 7 right, but most of them are mixed races. It's really difficult.
Steel
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Japan2283 Posts
May 02 2011 01:10 GMT
#17
I got black people right...

Rest I just couldn't see well =/ bad test
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EZjijy
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United States1039 Posts
May 02 2011 01:10 GMT
#18
Pictures are way to small and the people they chose have very ambiguous looks.
Angra
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
United States2652 Posts
May 02 2011 01:11 GMT
#19
It's kind of a silly test. There were so many of them where I was like "well this guy/girl looks mixed but I guess I have to pick a category" then at the end it's like "LOL YOU GOT IT WRONG HE WAS MIXED!" -_-
prOxi.Beater
Profile Joined December 2008
Denmark626 Posts
May 02 2011 01:12 GMT
#20
I couldn't for the life of me find more than one black person. Turns out the one guy I was sure was black actually wasn't and two of the left-over people I had randomly put in the black box were actually black. Only guessed one right person in each category, except for black.

Nice way to get a point across
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Lebeog
Profile Joined August 2010
United States10 Posts
May 02 2011 01:13 GMT
#21
On May 02 2011 10:07 Irave wrote:
Managed to get 9 out of 20 correct, this is just setup to have you fail


That's probably the purpose of it: to break down your ideas of how you identify what race others are by their appearance. (got 11/20 right, but yeah)
hyunGGe
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States108 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-05-02 01:16:10
May 02 2011 01:15 GMT
#22
i did horrible. pics are too small and people seem to be racially mixed. seems to force errors.

still i guess there is a somewhat of a point. in the future, race may be harder to distinguish exactly.
for example i've heard from a friend that there's not really any Japanese-Americans in the sense that of Japanese in America. Most of those Japanese-Americans have married with Americans so their kids are racially mixed.

btw here is another quiz, to guess whether the person is korean, japanese or chinese. the pics are larger so the quiz should be better.
http://alllooksame.com/

+ Show Spoiler +
after taking the alllooksame quiz, i have to say a lot of race has to definitely to do with culture. sometimes i cant tell what kind of asian someone is at 1st glance but once they say something or do something, i can usually tell, or at least have a better guess. btw im asian
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Kaoriyu
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
Canada276 Posts
May 02 2011 01:16 GMT
#23
I got 15/20.

I swear to god all of them are mixed seeing how I have many mixed friends.
Altar
Profile Joined May 2008
United States577 Posts
May 02 2011 01:16 GMT
#24
Small horrible quality pictures, of course I can't sort them.
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trias_e
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States520 Posts
May 02 2011 01:19 GMT
#25
Pretty hilarious test. Talk about reaching as far as possible to get the result you want.
boon2537
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States905 Posts
May 02 2011 01:22 GMT
#26
What's the point of this test? To show us that today racial mixture is common, making it hard to guess a person's racial background ?
TheGreatWhiteHope_
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States335 Posts
May 02 2011 01:23 GMT
#27
I know what this test is trying to prove, too bad it is methodologically flawed.
Kenderson
Profile Joined October 2010
Canada280 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-05-02 01:24:40
May 02 2011 01:23 GMT
#28
13/20. They should all be mugshots and not random pics.
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staplestf2
Profile Joined January 2011
United States147 Posts
May 02 2011 01:24 GMT
#29
most of them are intentionally misleading.
this is more of a trick than a test
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KimJongChill
Profile Joined January 2011
United States6429 Posts
May 02 2011 01:25 GMT
#30
wow the pictures are so small, this is such a bad test.
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zappa372
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
Chile365 Posts
May 02 2011 01:28 GMT
#31
There's no point on having a "race" anymore, they got all messed up.
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ixi.genocide
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
United States981 Posts
May 02 2011 01:28 GMT
#32
The german/black lady that identifies as black when she is pale is interesting....

While I don't really agree with categorizing people based off of what they look like, self identification is something I could see a 1st grade teacher do to avoid conflict >.>

I got 2/4 native, 2/4 hispanic, 3/4 black (would have never guessed the white girl was black....) 3/4 asian and 3/4 White (the irish/asian guy got me).
Skilledblob
Profile Joined April 2011
Germany3392 Posts
May 02 2011 01:29 GMT
#33
so they ask about specific race but in the end all of the people that belonged into that category are at best half of that race.

When I walk through Berlin you bet I can tell who is no European
Yergidy
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States2107 Posts
May 02 2011 01:29 GMT
#34
On May 02 2011 10:11 Angra wrote:
It's kind of a silly test. There were so many of them where I was like "well this guy/girl looks mixed but I guess I have to pick a category" then at the end it's like "LOL YOU GOT IT WRONG HE WAS MIXED!" -_-

Ya they set you up to fail. It was a pretty dumb test.
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Varpulis
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United States2517 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-05-02 01:31:42
May 02 2011 01:31 GMT
#35
My teacher had my class do this and fill out a worksheet about racial perceptions or something like that. They picked people who looked ambiguous or used other factors like lighting to trick you into misplacing people, and then say "ooh look how wrong and prejudiced you are." Another section of the website has statistics that are almost certainly biased. It's not a very good test or website, imo.
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matjlav
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
Germany2435 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-05-02 01:34:38
May 02 2011 01:33 GMT
#36
On May 02 2011 10:11 Angra wrote:
It's kind of a silly test. There were so many of them where I was like "well this guy/girl looks mixed but I guess I have to pick a category" then at the end it's like "LOL YOU GOT IT WRONG HE WAS MIXED!" -_-


Pretty much this. It's like a multiple choice test where none of the choices are actually right...

I suppose they're criticizing the current US government's system, but I can't help but feel that this "test" is attempting to aim criticism at the test taker.
intoyourrainbOW
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
United States168 Posts
May 02 2011 01:34 GMT
#37
don't mean to derail, but there's a better test specifically looking at asian races.

http://alllooksame.com/

Have fun.
nemY
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States3119 Posts
May 02 2011 01:35 GMT
#38
I didn't get a single Hispanic/Latino right

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That white girl is not predominately black
XothermeK
Profile Joined May 2010
United Arab Emirates245 Posts
May 02 2011 01:35 GMT
#39
the title is misleading, a more appropriate title would be "Play the MIXED ETHNICITY game"
reincremate
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
China2213 Posts
May 02 2011 01:36 GMT
#40
It's generally harder to tell what race/ethnicity a mixed person is. But we all already know that we shouldn't make assumptions about people (i.e. prejudice) which is the obvious message of this poorly designed test.
SweetNJoshSauce
Profile Joined July 2010
United States468 Posts
May 02 2011 01:37 GMT
#41
What a joke. Look at the people that claim that they're black, who do they think their kidding?

Reminds me of some people I've meet that are just as white as me(blue eyed and blond ect) but claim to be "Native American" because they say they're 1/16 Blackfoot or whatever.
Golgotha
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Korea (South)8418 Posts
May 02 2011 01:37 GMT
#42
such a lame test...it all depends on the person's picture
Gokey
Profile Joined November 2006
United States2722 Posts
May 02 2011 01:38 GMT
#43
I think the point is, the milkman is a lot sneakier than most people think...
Navillus
Profile Joined February 2011
United States1188 Posts
May 02 2011 01:40 GMT
#44
got 3 white and 2 of the rest but Hispanic >< I knew that would be the group I'd fail on, when there's mixing I really can't tell half-Hispanic from half anything else.
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Slow Motion
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States6960 Posts
May 02 2011 01:41 GMT
#45
On May 02 2011 10:38 Gokey wrote:
I think the point is, the milkman is a lot sneakier than most people think...

LOL win. I think that's probably the best conclusion to draw from this exercise.
Brutaxilos
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States2624 Posts
May 02 2011 01:41 GMT
#46
this reminds me of that can u guess which asian country the guy is from quiz. terrible quiz, basically they got a chinese guy dressed him up in very japanese styled clothes with japanese style facial hair etc. and screw you up. and stuff like that. btw just saying that there ARE visual differences between koreans chinese and japanese, there not definite but many times you can guess correctly
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XothermeK
Profile Joined May 2010
United Arab Emirates245 Posts
May 02 2011 01:42 GMT
#47
Just when I thought I would have an easy time picking out the Blacks from the rest.... where are G-Unit mugshots when you need them?!?!?!
Jibba
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
United States22883 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-05-02 01:52:20
May 02 2011 01:49 GMT
#48
Not only is this test a nice way to illustrate how little most people understand races, but it also illustrates how the average TLer has shit reading comprehension! Well done, PBS!

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On May 02 2011 10:29 Skilledblob wrote:
When I walk through Berlin you bet I can tell who is no European

That's just because they're not wearing leather pants.
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Philymaniz
Profile Joined November 2010
United States177 Posts
May 02 2011 01:51 GMT
#49
On May 02 2011 10:02 Nothingtosay wrote:
The problem with a hispanic latino category is the fact that all the other "races" there fit into. Latinos are conglomerate of european native american and african descendents. Also seeing as native americans are the closest group to asians genetically some of them look very similar.

Still I think most of the people on TL would call some filipino people mexican if they saw them walking down the street.


I get called Mexican all the time >.>

On topic, I got 5 right. =(
fadestep
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
United States605 Posts
May 02 2011 01:51 GMT
#50
Its specifically created with really ambiguous looking people so people can fail and feel bad for being racist.
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Jibba
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
United States22883 Posts
May 02 2011 01:53 GMT
#51
On May 02 2011 10:51 Philymaniz wrote:
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On May 02 2011 10:02 Nothingtosay wrote:
The problem with a hispanic latino category is the fact that all the other "races" there fit into. Latinos are conglomerate of european native american and african descendents. Also seeing as native americans are the closest group to asians genetically some of them look very similar.

Still I think most of the people on TL would call some filipino people mexican if they saw them walking down the street.


I get called Mexican all the time >.>

My sister is asian american and gets mistaken for being hispanic all the time.
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Fighter
Profile Joined August 2010
Korea (South)1531 Posts
May 02 2011 01:53 GMT
#52
Like someone else said, it really feels like they're intentionally using people of ambiguous ethnicity just to make a point. Plus most of the people had diverse backgrounds, and a few were exceptionally debatable. In particular I'm thinking of the Palestinan guy who identified as white and the Puerto-Rican (Spanish)/Irish/English girl who identified as Hispanic/Latino. Spanish people are white! Spain! Part of Europe! lol..

Anyway, I'd take things like this with a grain of salt.
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imDerek
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
United States1944 Posts
May 02 2011 01:55 GMT
#53
only got 5 .... and didn't get any asian.. i'm asian too
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XothermeK
Profile Joined May 2010
United Arab Emirates245 Posts
May 02 2011 01:56 GMT
#54
On May 02 2011 10:51 fadestep wrote:
Its specifically created with really ambiguous looking people so people can fail and feel bad for being racist.


How can failing at that make you a racist, sorry I don't understand.

From what I know, being a racist, is a person who merely thinks his race is superior to others POINT.
Draconicfire
Profile Joined May 2010
Canada2562 Posts
May 02 2011 01:58 GMT
#55
Wow I just got wrecked. 5/20.
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Alejandrisha
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States6565 Posts
May 02 2011 02:00 GMT
#56
Oh wow you can't figure out what race some one is by looking at 2x4 pixels tt
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howerpower
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
United States619 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-05-02 02:18:39
May 02 2011 02:01 GMT
#57
please white balance.
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StuBob
Profile Joined March 2010
United States373 Posts
May 02 2011 02:02 GMT
#58
3 right, it was hard to tell them apart

click on them for bigger
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N.geNuity
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States5112 Posts
May 02 2011 02:06 GMT
#59
Alright 8!

Got 3/4 "Native Americans" though. highest category.
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Profile Joined September 2010
Australia686 Posts
May 02 2011 02:07 GMT
#60
On May 02 2011 10:49 Jibba wrote:
Not only is this test a nice way to illustrate how little most people understand races, but it also illustrates how the average TLer has shit reading comprehension! Well done, PBS!

OGM TEH PICZ R 2 SMULL


Show nested quote +
On May 02 2011 10:29 Skilledblob wrote:
When I walk through Berlin you bet I can tell who is no European

That's just because they're not wearing leather pants.

bahahaha

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Vain
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Netherlands1115 Posts
May 02 2011 02:14 GMT
#61
Got only a few of them. Lol that Black woman was nowhere near the expected color
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aznwolfstein
Profile Joined January 2008
United States35 Posts
May 02 2011 02:15 GMT
#62
14/20 apparently I can't tell the difference between hispanics and whites.
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I did click on the pictures to see a bigger version though
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iPlaY.NettleS
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
Australia4329 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-05-02 02:19:10
May 02 2011 02:17 GMT
#63
i think alot of these guys are mixed race
I got around half correct
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BeefyKnight
Profile Joined November 2010
United States127 Posts
May 02 2011 02:17 GMT
#64
This is by far the dumbest test/quiz/whatever, I've ever seen.
jester-
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Canada547 Posts
May 02 2011 02:19 GMT
#65
Hilarious how that white chick is classified as black. How the heck do they expect any one to guess these correctly?

"Hmm, she is whiter than I am and since I'm a white person I'll assume she's white."

<Wrong! She is black!>
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Dalguno
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States2446 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-05-02 02:30:29
May 02 2011 02:21 GMT
#66
On May 02 2011 11:19 jester- wrote:
Hilarious how that white chick is classified as black. How the heck do they expect any one to guess these correctly?

"Hmm, she is whiter than I am and since I'm a white person I'll assume she's white."

<Wrong! She is black!>


Apparently race is determined by facial bone structure. That's what I've heard at least.
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MoltkeWarding
Profile Joined November 2003
5195 Posts
May 02 2011 02:23 GMT
#67
No Berliner has ever worn, or ever will wear leather pants.

The European nationalities easiest to identify visually are Finns and Russians. For most others, it's a spectrum of possibilities. When I was in Riga one of my idiosyncratic tourist activities was pick out people on the street and guess whether they were Latvian or Russian. Also like guessing a German's regional origins by their accent.

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phyren
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States1067 Posts
May 02 2011 02:23 GMT
#68
This is extremely old (I remember it from almost a decade ago), but along the same lines as the op.

http://alllooksame.com/
LanTAs
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States1091 Posts
May 02 2011 02:23 GMT
#69
oh god, i only got five right, i couldnt tell who was latino =0 but yeah great way for PBS to get their point across
Cloud9157
Profile Joined December 2010
United States2968 Posts
May 02 2011 02:27 GMT
#70
8 right.

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Whole
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States6046 Posts
May 02 2011 02:27 GMT
#71
9/20 =(
Sephy90
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
United States1785 Posts
May 02 2011 02:30 GMT
#72
I got 9 right... how the hell was that guy "Hispanic/Latino?" fucking small pictures. I don't like this game -_-. Then there was this dude with ocean sized glasses that distorted his face so I had to completely guess with him. asdlfjkahskljdfalskdf Ok rant over.
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Kimaker
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States2131 Posts
May 02 2011 02:30 GMT
#73
The pictures were shitty, they had half and halfs, and overall, it was a load of crock. Fun though.

Also, since we're on the topic, I read a really interesting study on race recently:

http://www.ln.edu.hk/philoso/staff/sesardic/Race.pdf

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Sprungjeezy
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
United States1313 Posts
May 02 2011 02:38 GMT
#74
Its pretty dumb that with all of the mixes. Its like expecting you to determine the primary color of green when there is 51% blue and 49% yellow.
Thermia
Profile Joined August 2010
United States866 Posts
May 02 2011 02:40 GMT
#75
17 right, but only because I figured they were trying to cherrypick examples of mixed people that would throw someone just going by looks off, so I guess that's metagaming it or something. Still, you can't tell me that some of the black people in their example are 50% or more, and hispanics can look like any of the groups mentioned, really. The "fullsize" photos from clicking on the images still are extremely small and don't really help.
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Tercotta
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Canada402 Posts
May 02 2011 02:42 GMT
#76
The competitive nature of TL-ites are causing people to miss the point of the test. The whole point is that its hard.
TheRhox
Profile Joined March 2011
Canada868 Posts
May 02 2011 02:44 GMT
#77
wow, I got only like 3 of em right..
HansMoleman
Profile Joined April 2010
United States343 Posts
May 02 2011 02:45 GMT
#78
How can anyone take this seriously with these horrendously low resolution pictures?
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FiWiFaKi
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
Canada9858 Posts
May 02 2011 02:47 GMT
#79
16/20, on a few I guessed, they totally put the hardest ones out there.
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Armathai
Profile Joined October 2007
1023 Posts
May 02 2011 02:48 GMT
#80
On May 02 2011 11:40 Thermia wrote:
17 right, but only because I figured they were trying to cherrypick examples of mixed people that would throw someone just going by looks off, so I guess that's metagaming it or something. Still, you can't tell me that some of the black people in their example are 50% or more, and hispanics can look like any of the groups mentioned, really. The "fullsize" photos from clicking on the images still are extremely small and don't really help.


Yea I got 15 right as well, but again only because I assumed they were going for something tricky.
Way too low resolution for a proper test, however I like the idea, hammers a point across. The idea that we even have these tests and include these statistics in national surveys etc. is terrible though
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DaCruise
Profile Joined July 2010
Denmark2457 Posts
May 02 2011 02:56 GMT
#81
My picks are way more accurate than the US classifications imho.

Most of those persons are completely mixed but its just stupid to classify a guy from Palestine with a clear arabian apperance as white and the brunette with blue eyes as black.

Whoever made this test should get another hobby/job.
StorkHwaiting
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States3465 Posts
May 02 2011 03:05 GMT
#82
This test was really lame. A ton of these people are mixed race and separating Asian from Native American is retarded, seeing as Native Americans are descended from Mongoloids.

One of the people I put in Black is supposed to be white, but then her info says she's mixed white and N. African. So... I wasn't wrong. It was the US Census that defaults her to white.

I put the Filipino/Irish guy in white. Well... that was his Irish half I was putting him into, seeing as he was far more Euro than he was Asian. Kind of ridiculous that he's classified as Asian considering Filipinos are already Spanish/Negroid/Mongoloid mix, then further injection of Euro with the Irish heritage. His genetics aren't anywhere close to Asian dominant.

The English/E. Indian girl I put in white. Obv, that's her English half I'm seeing. Yet, she goes in Asian? LOL

The only two that I totally missed were the two black girls who have "some" euro ancestry. It sounds more to me like they have a ton of white ancestors in their background, they just weren't legitimate marriages so they call themselves African despite heavy euro genetics.
matjlav
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
Germany2435 Posts
May 02 2011 03:07 GMT
#83
On May 02 2011 11:48 Armathai wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 02 2011 11:40 Thermia wrote:
17 right, but only because I figured they were trying to cherrypick examples of mixed people that would throw someone just going by looks off, so I guess that's metagaming it or something. Still, you can't tell me that some of the black people in their example are 50% or more, and hispanics can look like any of the groups mentioned, really. The "fullsize" photos from clicking on the images still are extremely small and don't really help.


Yea I got 15 right as well, but again only because I assumed they were going for something tricky.
Way too low resolution for a proper test, however I like the idea, hammers a point across. The idea that we even have these tests and include these statistics in national surveys etc. is terrible though


Well the fact is that most people do fall clearly within a White/Black/Latino/Native American/Asian category, enough so that it is still useful for statistical purposes.
rickybobby
Profile Joined October 2010
United States405 Posts
May 02 2011 03:15 GMT
#84
the shitty picture quality makes it harder, but its still surprising
jdseemoreglass
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States3773 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-05-02 03:20:00
May 02 2011 03:17 GMT
#85
Race is a social construct.... Yeah, I'm gonna believe that one...

No matter what some random "face test" or geneticist tries to convince me, I'm not quite ready to throw away my common sense just yet. The reason scientists have been unable to determine distinct races based upon individual genes is because races are not determined by individual genes. Anyone who looks at race as more of a statistical probability finds much more evidence that confirms what we've already long believed.

But this is the course science often takes. We deny something based on faulty data, political correctness, and cultural sensitivity, and it's only a matter of time before it is all proven wrong. I remember back when the psychologists and sociologists tried to convince us that male and female brains are identical, and society makes up all the difference.

Yeah, I loled at that one too.
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Xapti
Profile Joined April 2010
Canada2473 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-05-02 03:45:39
May 02 2011 03:23 GMT
#86
On May 02 2011 09:51 nennx wrote:
Edit: Oh, you can click on them to see them bigger :D
DAMN~!
OP needs to edit his OP

That said, I still got stuff wrong even when looking at the bigger pictures.

I can understand there being contension, because there are different concentrations of certain race per person, and when it comes to american indian (stupid term) and latino, how do you distinguish between them? they are both natives of America(s), some are just more northern than others.

What's stupid is how there's no Indian or middle-eastern category, which is probably what that black/latino (what most of you would have categorized him as instead of the white which he is classified as) guy was.

It's also crazy/incomprehensible-to-me how that dude with the really short curly hair is considered latino and not black. I guess this is due to him maybe being ~50% latino origin.

There were some other pretty incredible things too, more-so tricks in my opinion.
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slicknav
Profile Joined January 2011
1409 Posts
May 02 2011 03:29 GMT
#87
They should re-classify 'American Indian' to 'native american'.
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Amui
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
Canada10567 Posts
May 02 2011 03:32 GMT
#88
After clicking on all the pics, I got 4/4 Asian's and 2 others -_-;; I am not good at identifying non-Asian races =(
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DrBoo
Profile Joined April 2010
Canada1177 Posts
May 02 2011 03:52 GMT
#89
el oh el the racist game. I like Stephen Colbert don't see race so I fail horribly at this game.
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Alzadar
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Canada5009 Posts
May 02 2011 22:25 GMT
#90
Having Indian people in the same classification as East Asians does seem pretty stupid. Are Russians in that category too? :o

Self-identification seems like a stupid system in general.
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TALegion
Profile Joined October 2010
United States1187 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-05-02 22:33:58
May 02 2011 22:31 GMT
#91
On May 02 2011 09:59 aimaimaim wrote:
lol .. Those guys have like racial mixing. That's cheating!

Not gonna say it isn't fair, but it did throw me off. I know a bit about how facial features (Not simply color, eyes, hair, etc.) can tell you a person's ethnicity, and I only got like 8 right.

A couple of people really threw me off.

P.S. The Native American/Asian thing is what I mean when I say that I got confused. They're very similar, so with mix-raced people being up against eachother, it's very difficult to distinguish. I couldn't (I only got like 1 Native American correct).
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vectorix108
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States4633 Posts
May 02 2011 22:37 GMT
#92
Interesting stuff. Guess I learned something from that
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RieuK
Profile Joined November 2009
United Kingdom55 Posts
May 02 2011 22:43 GMT
#93
I only managed to get 6 right.. lol
PervOx
Profile Joined November 2010
Sweden10 Posts
May 02 2011 22:43 GMT
#94
On May 02 2011 12:05 StorkHwaiting wrote:
Native Americans are descended from Mongoloids.

Spanish/Negroid/Mongoloid


My English might be lacking, but isn't it supposed to be "Mongolian"? Or are you saying that most Asians have a chromosome to many?
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Holcan
Profile Joined April 2010
Canada2593 Posts
May 02 2011 22:47 GMT
#95
the native americans were so easy to pick, all their picture quality were shit...Also i know a lot of native Canadians, so that helped.
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Holcan
Profile Joined April 2010
Canada2593 Posts
May 02 2011 22:48 GMT
#96
On May 03 2011 07:43 PervOx wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 02 2011 12:05 StorkHwaiting wrote:
Native Americans are descended from Mongoloids.

Spanish/Negroid/Mongoloid


My English might be lacking, but isn't it supposed to be "Mongolian"? Or are you saying that most Asians have a chromosome to many?



mongoloid, caucasian, negroid, etc, they are terms to describe racial attributes that develop among certain areas.
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Impervious
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
Canada4199 Posts
May 02 2011 22:55 GMT
#97
I got 16.

I wasn't looking at skin tone, I was looking at facial structure and facial features instead. Some were pretty easy to figure out.

I did have to guess a few though.
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Profile Blog Joined June 2005
United States3001 Posts
May 02 2011 22:57 GMT
#98
Wow, that's pretty tough.

Got 3/4 on Asian, 2/4 on Hispanic/Latino and 1/4 on everything else.
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Ryalnos
Profile Joined July 2010
United States1946 Posts
May 02 2011 23:01 GMT
#99
They clearly chose these pictures to try to fool you.
Thrill
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
2599 Posts
May 02 2011 23:01 GMT
#100
I owned that, except for the mustache clad gentleman who was apparently white.
smokeyhoodoo
Profile Joined January 2010
United States1021 Posts
May 02 2011 23:05 GMT
#101
Tell you what. When a Norwegian couple gives birth to a child thats black as night i'll believe this laughable theory that race is a "social construct".
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Stuv
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
Netherlands942 Posts
May 02 2011 23:09 GMT
#102
I got 10 of them, pretty nice since the pictures are based on American-standards.
radscorpion9
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Canada2252 Posts
May 02 2011 23:10 GMT
#103
i think i got 4/16, all luck based. What's really staggering is the obviously white looking people who are categorized as black! I guess with mixed races you can say people are just about anything now
FubsyGamr
Profile Joined July 2010
United States212 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-05-02 23:16:13
May 02 2011 23:12 GMT
#104
I got 8/20 right

I do think it's a bit silly that one guy, who's ancestry is from Palestine, goes under the "white" category. That seems a bit misleading, to me. He looks hispanic, he even SAYS he knows he looks hispanic, in reality he's from Palestine (his blood is, anyways) and yet....WHITE.

Huh?
trackd00r
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
Chile284 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-05-02 23:14:06
May 02 2011 23:13 GMT
#105
Was this test supposed to confuse you using generalizations of skin, hair color, etc? Because I personally found it pretty hard

Got 7 of 20
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Muffinman53
Profile Joined November 2010
571 Posts
May 02 2011 23:18 GMT
#106
The only thing that messed me up was telling the difference between Native Americans and Asians. I don't see very many Native Americans all over the place.
prototype.
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
Canada4200 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-05-02 23:21:02
May 02 2011 23:19 GMT
#107
10 correct. Most of my choices were guesses.

I don't like how some pics were taken with flash so it makes them have lighter skin. Either way, I would still have failed to choose correctly. Some of them are just 100% misleading... unfair test imo.

On May 03 2011 08:12 FubsyGamr wrote:
I got 8/20 right

I do think it's a bit silly that one guy, who's ancestry is from Palestine, goes under the "white" category. That seems a bit misleading, to me. He looks hispanic, he even SAYS he knows he looks hispanic, in reality he's from Palestine (his blood is, anyways) and yet....WHITE.

Huh?

That was a big "WTF" for me too.
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Kinetik_Inferno
Profile Joined December 2010
United States1431 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-05-02 23:20:15
May 02 2011 23:19 GMT
#108
Self Identification is bullshit. law enforcement and Immigration should have birth certificates, immigration documents, passports, etc. Lighting was also very funky and the pics were bad.

That isn't to say people lie about their race, but the clarification gets fuzzy if you are of mixed race/insecure.
zev318
Profile Joined October 2010
Canada4306 Posts
May 02 2011 23:20 GMT
#109
this test is stupid, the lighting makes everyone look white lol. they probably would've used michael jackson's pic just to trick people if they could.
OrchidThief
Profile Joined April 2011
Denmark2298 Posts
May 02 2011 23:21 GMT
#110
You can click on the picture to get a larger image. Their point is that telling peoples races is difficult based on their appearances.
MasterFischer
Profile Joined August 2009
Denmark836 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-05-02 23:27:57
May 02 2011 23:26 GMT
#111
Fffs..

No way those Black people were black and vice versa..

race is determined by color AND facial features, color being the stronger factor of indication.

Thus, a clearly black man or woman is by definition a racially black man or woman. They might have a smaller nose than most blacks, or some other features, but it still makes em black..

Just as whites are whites, and asian people have very characteristic eyes and different skin. Just like native americans look different too, but are clearly indian.

It's those common trademarks that should determin race.

This test was fkin stupid


Was weird tho.... the asian looking guy with black skin.. wtf?

I would still call him asian tho, mainly because of the eyes.
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Destro
Profile Joined September 2009
Netherlands1206 Posts
May 02 2011 23:30 GMT
#112
i feel like this test tricked me into feeling like a bad person.
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MasterFischer
Profile Joined August 2009
Denmark836 Posts
May 02 2011 23:34 GMT
#113
Guys please... it has nothing to do with racism at all or anything remotely related..

It's just facts, that most black people have bigger noses, darker skin,

asians got special eyes and lighter, more toned skin

whites, espepcially scandinavians, alot have blond hair, blue eyes.. green eyes.. etc red heads

mexicans and latinos, hispianic got darker skin, but not as dark as blacks, and they got usually smaller bones, but not as small as asians. Sort of a mixture,

It's just normal traits of their race.. so what ?

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MasterFischer
Profile Joined August 2009
Denmark836 Posts
May 02 2011 23:38 GMT
#114
On May 02 2011 09:59 micronesia wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 02 2011 09:54 iamho wrote:
There's no way four of these people are black..

Why? Black doesn't mean they look like they are 500th generation central Africa... Tiger Woods is half Asian.



Tiger Woods might be half asian, but he looks predominantly black to me. Which makes him, a black.
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Zooper31
Profile Joined May 2009
United States5710 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-05-02 23:57:43
May 02 2011 23:52 GMT
#115
JC I can't even find the 4 white people. I have the 2 obv ones and then I'm completely lost lol.

Got 10/20, 2 people in each category correctly. Idk if thats good or bad. Does that mean I don't have a bias for any particuliar race?
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micronesia
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States24676 Posts
May 02 2011 23:54 GMT
#116
On May 03 2011 08:38 MasterFischer wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 02 2011 09:59 micronesia wrote:
On May 02 2011 09:54 iamho wrote:
There's no way four of these people are black..

Why? Black doesn't mean they look like they are 500th generation central Africa... Tiger Woods is half Asian.



Tiger Woods might be half asian, but he looks predominantly black to me. Which makes him, a black.

To you race is simply a matter of what someone looks like? That is not what it was intended to mean (as stupid as the concept of race might seem to many people). How do you even measure how predominantly someone looks a certain race? It's completely subjective.
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JohannesH
Profile Joined September 2009
Finland1364 Posts
May 02 2011 23:57 GMT
#117
Why is there an arab in the whites? :/
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Kaonis
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States243 Posts
May 03 2011 00:02 GMT
#118
Hey they cheated these all guys self-identified! :o

In other words, that was a pain in the butt.
Nevermind.
Chairman Ray
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States11903 Posts
May 03 2011 00:08 GMT
#119
Wish the pics were bigger =(
Frigo
Profile Joined August 2009
Hungary1023 Posts
May 03 2011 00:08 GMT
#120
Yeah this test uses hand-picked photos but demonstrates its point beautifully, race as commonly understood, is just an arbitrary categorization and thus it is completely useless.

Among others, I've always found the "asian", "african american", "caucasian" and "latino" designations hilarious. Asia has almost 4 billion people, with absolutely no common ethnical or cultural background, not even in a particular country. Assuming someone is african just because he is black is rather arrogant as well. Latinos don't speak latin, hispanics aren't from hispania, caucasians aren't from the caucasus, whites aren't 0xffffff white.
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SirKibbleX
Profile Blog Joined October 2006
United States479 Posts
May 03 2011 00:09 GMT
#121
Maybe it's just that I'm so progressive but I don't see your race/ethnicity as having anything to do with your heritage, but more a way to simply describe a person. Like if someone asked me if they remember their friend George and I was like "who?" they might say "the asian guy who was talking to me at the store."

It's just a descriptory tool used to rapidly identify the many complex variables of facial/skin tone structure so you can communicate it more efficiently.
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TheloniousMonk
Profile Joined November 2010
Australia41 Posts
May 03 2011 00:11 GMT
#122
On May 02 2011 10:19 trias_e wrote:
Pretty hilarious test. Talk about reaching as far as possible to get the result you want.

basically this
pick 20 of the most ambiguous looking people, go out of your way to find people who have certain traits that make them look like another ethnicity to prove a point. i am 100% sure they put the guy who resembles morgan freeman just to trick most people.
i mean i get it, but it's really irritating.
DragonDefonce
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
United States790 Posts
May 03 2011 00:20 GMT
#123
Many of them are mixed race. That ain't fair.
RandomAccount#49059
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
United States2140 Posts
May 03 2011 00:20 GMT
#124
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FliedLice
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Germany7494 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-05-03 00:22:30
May 03 2011 00:22 GMT
#125
I'll just pretend that it's good that I got only 3 right.

RACE NO MATTER TO ME!
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SenorChang
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Australia4729 Posts
May 03 2011 00:23 GMT
#126
Only 9 correct ><

some of them really throw you off lol
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Reborn8u
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
United States1761 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-05-03 01:12:29
May 03 2011 00:29 GMT
#127
This is a horrible test, the different lighting in each picture, and 8-bit quality pixels makes it 10x harder than it should be. It's as if they were trying to make people think they couldn't really tell.

Just finished the test it's quite obvious the people were chosen specifically because they don't look typical for their race.

+ Show Spoiler +

One of the people the test says is black has blue eyes, this is a trait I've never seen. One of the quotes from another person says that people always mistake their race. One of the women has clearly had plastic surgery. One of the guys in the latino section says he is portugese (that is not latino) One of the people in hispanic has pale skin, blue eyes and in the ancestory it says "puerto rican, irish and english"

This test is really garbage. I'd be willing to bet a dna test would put most of these people in different categories. If you think about it, all native Americans descended from Asians and were then isolated from all other races until Columbus. Portugal and Spain are known for being a melting pot of Arab (because Arabs ruled Spain for 200 years) and African who mixed in after the ending of slavery. Most of the people who identify themselves as latino can be almost any mix of Caucasian, Spanish, native American, and Portuguese. That is essentially what gave rise to the Latino race, was Spanish, European, and Portuguese mixing with native Americans.


I suspected this test was a setup when I first posted after taking the test and then clicking on the people and seeing that most of them are actually mixed, but identify as whatever makes them a minority I am sure now that my original suspicion was correct. This test is a joke.

+ Show Spoiler +


See a problem with their classification vs actual ancestry?

[image loading]

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So Palestinian = white??


All this test proves is that the census has a really poor classification system.
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PhiliBiRD
Profile Joined November 2009
United States2643 Posts
May 03 2011 00:36 GMT
#128
got exactly 50% right.

not 2 bad, it was pretty tough. it said 1 white woman was hispanic and another was black and i jsut laughed.

sure call yourself wat you want but when your skin is that white and your hair is that color your not black.
Faria
Profile Joined February 2011
155 Posts
May 03 2011 00:46 GMT
#129
so yea, i got 2/20 right rofl
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Scribble
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
2077 Posts
May 03 2011 00:48 GMT
#130
Got about 3/4. Was really surprised by a few.
Kazeyonoma
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States2912 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-05-03 01:02:54
May 03 2011 01:02 GMT
#131
i'm terrible O_o, only got 5 right. but isn't it disingenuous to give us ONLY photos of only head shots, give us ONLY 5 generic group types, then throw in a ton of mix raced people who they KNEW would throw us off and then say " See, you're bad".
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evanthebouncy
Profile Joined November 2004
China491 Posts
May 03 2011 01:11 GMT
#132
dude they were freaking MIXED no shit I can't tell.

Given it my way I'd put a mixed category just to be fair...
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Project Psycho
Profile Joined November 2010
United Kingdom329 Posts
May 03 2011 01:12 GMT
#133
I got 8 right, but it is stupid considering most are mixed race, if not all. I mean how can that woman who is half german and clearly white, class her self as black?
evanthebouncy
Profile Joined November 2004
China491 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-05-03 01:15:07
May 03 2011 01:14 GMT
#134
Just in spite of this silly test :p

[image loading]


Poll: Guess His Race

Black (27)
 
87%

Latino (2)
 
6%

Asian (1)
 
3%

White (1)
 
3%

31 total votes

Your vote: Guess His Race

(Vote): Black
(Vote): Asian
(Vote): White
(Vote): Latino



+ Show Spoiler +

He's boxer, so he's asian
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Denizen[9]
Profile Joined July 2010
United States649 Posts
May 03 2011 01:15 GMT
#135
i hate how they had people who were multiple races
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Supamang
Profile Joined June 2010
United States2298 Posts
May 03 2011 01:17 GMT
#136
Stupid, stupid test. Not only was it damn obvious that most of them were mixed race people, they made the pictures way too small AND pixelated. If they actually wanted to make a point, theyd have made the test fair.
synapse
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
China13814 Posts
May 03 2011 01:21 GMT
#137
They purposely chose people of certain races that didn't look like that race / looked like they were another race.... so I don't see how this really proves anything.
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Vain
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Netherlands1115 Posts
May 03 2011 01:22 GMT
#138
Yo guys if you like that test you gotta try this one.

These are the Categories:
+ Show Spoiler +
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And this are the participating colours:
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[url=http://imgur.com/rc26c][image loading]


Good Luck and have fun!

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NIJ
Profile Joined March 2010
1012 Posts
May 03 2011 01:51 GMT
#139
i knew that palestinian guy was white. too easy knowing how US categorization works. i figured they threw in an indo-aryan guy to be tricky. Yes people from that region are white. So technically that indian girl can be white too really if she associates herself as bening part of aryan orgin. its all a big mess. Didnt even consider him looking like a mexican because of my pre conceived idea of test being tricky, but i suppose its possible.

the real silly part imo was asking me to distinguish who are latinos from whites and american indians. Okay so heres a ethnic group originated from.... among many, WHITES and AMERICAN INDIANS and you expect me to know just from looking? lol.
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Cedstick
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
Canada3336 Posts
May 03 2011 02:02 GMT
#140
100%. Guess I'm really good at being racist!
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TheArtOfFugue
Profile Joined September 2010
Canada187 Posts
May 03 2011 02:04 GMT
#141
Racial imbalance... patch it blizzard!

I got 8/20, tricky test
74% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
trainRiderJ
Profile Joined August 2010
United States615 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-05-03 02:42:40
May 03 2011 02:41 GMT
#142
If you're interested in how people actually use the real differences between the races you might be interested in this FDA guidance. I work in the clinical trials industry so I was surprised to see the "selection" offered up in the test, which is obviously flawed for many reasons as you all have pointed out.

http://www.fda.gov/RegulatoryInformation/Guidances/ucm126340.htm

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iSTime
Profile Joined November 2006
1579 Posts
May 03 2011 03:18 GMT
#143
Those photos are so pixilated it's impossible to tell anything.
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jello_biafra
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
United Kingdom6635 Posts
May 03 2011 03:27 GMT
#144
The pictures are so small that it's hard to tell what race they are, still got all but 2 in the correct category however.
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P3T3R
Profile Joined March 2011
Canada87 Posts
May 03 2011 03:31 GMT
#145
Click on the pictures on the answer page of the game. It shows what their ancestry is and most of them are mixed -_-
"I don't care about the law. I care about justice"
Scarecrow
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
Korea (South)9172 Posts
May 03 2011 04:56 GMT
#146
The palestinian is bullshit
Yhamm is the god of predictions
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