in real life, to see how effective people are at recognizing people they've encountered online in real life. The twist is several of the users are legally blind, and the belief is that people who are blind will be better at identifying who the people are. After the introductions and attempts at identification, the patients will all be put through brain-scans, because the object of the study is to identify characteristics of the anterior insular cortex associated with the ability to recognize individuals and behavioral traits.
Do you think the blind people will really be better able to correlate online behavior to in person introductions? Are there other behaviors or traits that you would tend to associate with an improved ability to match people you meet in real life to their online behavior?
That would be an interesting study to read. My hypothesis would be that they won't be better at identifying people they've already met. I believe the blind are better at picking up real-life cues, such as the way someone shuffles when they walk or a person's scent, but I don't think it translates into identifying people online. There's also the variable that not all people are the same online/ offline, so it can be even more difficult to match people up.
Is this a real study? O_o
I think we are all blind when we meet on the internet. I don't think they would have an.advantage.
Well I know we all have developed our own "style" of
typing,i.e. words we use all the time,phrases,even
punctuation can be "unique"to an individual,BUT,blind
users takes all that out of the equation..seeing what is
typed is not the same as computers that "talk" and I
don't know if a Braille printout is 100% exact.
