Sometimes I make a quick judgement on how smart somebody is when I look at them. It’s not on purpose, it just happens. Sometimes later, my bias is confirmed, or seems to be. Is this a real thing, or am I fooling myself?
I do this often but I’m sure it’s confirmation bias. To me, some people’s eyes are vacant- lights on but nobody home, like looking into the eyes of a chicken- but I’d put no faith in my impressions.
Dunno, but several people have claimed they could see intelligence in our dog’s eyes.
Sometimes I make quick judgments on all-caps usernames.
Yes
No. The window to the soul is actually the perineum.
You can see alertness in a person’s eyes - that they are engaged and paying attention to you. Of course, I can see the same sparkle in my dog’s eyes, so it doesn’t actually translate into intelligence.
If you can see white around the entire circumference of the iris= Crazy
Lazy eye or cross eye= stupid.
Good symmetry= smart.
Not stating this as fact, just how they are perceived.
Of course you can! There was a movement to get rid of standard testing in schools relying instead on simply gazing into children’s eyes… but Big IQ quashed it.
Because confidence = intelligence? Got it.
This simply isn’t true. Lot’s of stupid people out there overflowing with confidence. I’d name a certain political figure as an example if I didn’t think the Mods would give me a slap down.
Bet you can guess who though.
Naah, it’s not the eyes. It’s the glasses.
No it taint.
I don’t think you can see intelligence in people’s eyes and I’m not aware of any scientific test that supports the claim.
However my doctor assures me that it’s worth checking for jaundice in the eyes if a patient has liver problems.
Not the eyes per se but changes in facial expression, which include a lot of fine changes around the eyes. The speed at which these take place, and in response to what.
Around some people, I get a sub-one-second processing of “I heard that” / “I made a connection between that and something amusing or horrifying or whatever” / “I considered what I know about you and realized you no doubt just made the same connection” / “I am observing you and realize that yo unot only just made the same connection but you know that I did and furthermore you know we’re mutually aware of that and amused or mutually horrified by it”.
With less intelligent people, all of that is slower and the upper layers are often missing.
With still less intelligent people, the connections between things are missing entirely; they don’t get reflected in their facial expressions; they’re just hearing what’s going on right now and I’m not seeing much correlation.
It’s an impression that takes place over extended time, because (as in this example) a given person may simply not be aware of something, may not have the correlated data in their heads, and that is not a function of intelligence (although being a sponge and soaking up lots of info sort of IS), so ignorance and lack of exposure in one such event doesn’t feed a conclusion of lower intelligence but if repeated often, it sort of is, and vice versa for someone who seems to “get it” at every juncture.
Can you make a snap judgement of someone’s intelligence based on appearance and a (possibly trivially short) single interaction and be correct more often than chance?
Probably.
Could you based on this, even if you were correct less often than chance, get the idea it was a thing you could do, due to confirmation bias?
Definitely.
Could you focus overly on the eyes as the defining factor in this confirmation bias?
Also definitely.
Yup. There are a lot of fast-thinking morons out there who can rapidly connect thoughts and make all kinds of wrong inferences based on what they think are rock solid observations. I am one of those morons. And this post is probably pretty stupid, yet I advance it as gospel anyway. No wonder the world is such a mess!
Moved to IMHO.
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No, it taint.
Strictly speaking, shouldn’t that be “No, taint.” ?