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A Snippet to Pique Your Interest
Posted on February 25, 2005 by Sarah Eaton.
Everybody's talking about Malcolm Gladwell's book, Blink. So I'm reading it to see what all the fuss is about.
So far so good--lots of interesting stuff. I'll be posting a specially B2B-slanted review of it next week sometime.
In the meantime, here's a tasty little morsel to tide you over, as posted on Boing Boing.
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The tasty morsel you've selected should spark some measure of debate. (Sorry about the mixed metaphor. In it the author seems to elevate the findings of scientists who make generalizations about people based on their facial muscles - including their sexual orientation. That kind of finding is rather repugnant to me - recalling how Nazis enjoyed generalizing about human beings based on the size of their noses.
Still, there's an interesting quote 'I've got to unpack the face," says one.
What can we really tell about people from their faces? More importantly what can we learn about ourselves by the snap judgments we make about people based on what we read into their faces?
These questions are clearly critical for business people as all people who consider themselves civilized.
Posted by: Susan Fisher | Feb 28, 2005 9:59:34 PM
The "tasty morsel" you've selected should spark some measure of debate. (Sorry about the mixed metaphor.) In it, the author seems to elevate the findings of scientists who make generalizations about people based on their facial muscles - among those "findings" are assumptions about individuals' sexual orientation. That kind of finding is rather repugnant to me - recalling how Nazis enjoyed generalizing about human beings based on the size of their noses.
Still, there's an interesting quote in the posting: "I've got to unpack the face," says one "scientist."
What can we really tell about people from their faces? More importantly, what can we learn about ourselves by the snap judgments we make about people based on what we read into their faces?
These questions are clearly critical for business people as for all people who consider themselves civilized.
Posted by: Susan Fisher | Feb 28, 2005 10:05:32 PM
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