# Website that shows how wrong guessing race is. **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 17, 2007, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/website-that-shows-how-wrong-guessing-race-is/396287 "2007-03-17T01:06:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/website-that-shows-how-wrong-guessing-race-is/396287/1 "2007-03-17T01:06:50Z")
I remember running across a website that let the user guess the race for a number of people, but now I can’t remember where I saw the site. Maybe it was a government site? Anyway, I remember doing the thing and seeing how wrong I was on my guesses. Anyone know the site? ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/website-that-shows-how-wrong-guessing-race-is/396287/2 "2007-03-17T01:10:28Z")
[This](http://racerelations.about.com/library/bl_racequiz.htm)? ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/website-that-shows-how-wrong-guessing-race-is/396287/3 "2007-03-17T01:10:39Z")
Hah? 😕😕😕 What race? What guessing? What is the airspeed velocity of an unlaiden swallow? ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/website-that-shows-how-wrong-guessing-race-is/396287/4 "2007-03-17T01:14:16Z")
Go back to your basement, **Bosda**. Grownups are talking. ---
**Author:** ![SpectBrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a87d85/32.png) [@SpectBrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpectBrain)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/website-that-shows-how-wrong-guessing-race-is/396287/5 "2007-03-17T01:25:10Z")
I tried it and I got 50 % right. Or would that be 50% wrong? :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/website-that-shows-how-wrong-guessing-race-is/396287/6 "2007-03-17T01:36:11Z")
[QUOTE=SpectBrain] I tried it and I got 50 % right. Or would that be 50% wrong? :smack: [/QUOTE] I did far worse than that. I only got 37% right. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/website-that-shows-how-wrong-guessing-race-is/396287/7 "2007-03-17T01:38:42Z")
I got 56%. Not great, and I grew up in a racially diverse area of Southern California. ---
**Author:** ![Caridwen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c89c15/32.png) [@Caridwen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caridwen)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/website-that-shows-how-wrong-guessing-race-is/396287/8 "2007-03-17T01:39:43Z")
I got about a 37% too. I got a little distracted because #11 was kinda hot. ---
**Author:** ![Jurph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/50afbb/32.png) [@Jurph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jurph)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/website-that-shows-how-wrong-guessing-race-is/396287/9 "2007-03-17T01:40:51Z")
The hard version (for me, anyway) is the version which has only Asians: [All look same](http://www.alllooksame.com/) dot com. I am usually pretty adept at this sort of thing in meetings, but I pretty much failed their test. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/website-that-shows-how-wrong-guessing-race-is/396287/10 "2007-03-17T01:51:05Z")
Who is [this guy?](http://z.about.com/d/racerelations/1/0/H/1/chinoxl.jpg) It says he’s Jewish, Black, Caucasian and Latino. But it doesn’t say who he is! ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/website-that-shows-how-wrong-guessing-race-is/396287/11 "2007-03-17T01:54:38Z")
[QUOTE=Argent Towers] Who is [this guy?](http://z.about.com/d/racerelations/1/0/H/1/chinoxl.jpg) [/QUOTE] Rapper [Chino XL](http://imdb.com/name/nm0944598/). ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/website-that-shows-how-wrong-guessing-race-is/396287/12 "2007-03-17T01:55:29Z")
[QUOTE=Argent Towers] Who is [this guy?](http://z.about.com/d/racerelations/1/0/H/1/chinoxl.jpg) It says he’s Jewish, Black, Caucasian and Latino. But it doesn’t say who he is! [/QUOTE] That is Jerome Consuelo Stan Goldberg III ---
**Author:** ![Caridwen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c89c15/32.png) [@Caridwen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caridwen)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/website-that-shows-how-wrong-guessing-race-is/396287/13 "2007-03-17T03:34:49Z")
[QUOTE=Caridwen] I got about a 37% too. I got a little distracted because #11 was kinda hot. [/QUOTE] I mean #8, Russell Wong. :o ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/website-that-shows-how-wrong-guessing-race-is/396287/14 "2007-03-17T03:58:24Z")
> [@](#): > > I mean #8, Russell Wong. They change order each time. Wasn’t one of them Wonder Woman (Lynda Carter)? ---
**Author:** ![SlickRoenick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@SlickRoenick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlickRoenick)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/website-that-shows-how-wrong-guessing-race-is/396287/15 "2007-03-17T04:22:45Z")
[QUOTE=Argent Towers] Who is [this guy?](http://z.about.com/d/racerelations/1/0/H/1/chinoxl.jpg) It says he’s Jewish, Black, Caucasian and Latino. But it doesn’t say who he is! [/QUOTE] He was the only one i got right and i guessed. That game is hard ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Neptunian\_Slug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce7236/32.png) [@Neptunian\_Slug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neptunian_Slug)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/website-that-shows-how-wrong-guessing-race-is/396287/16 "2007-03-17T05:01:01Z")
I got 9 out of 6. I missed the first four not realizing that I should be picking multiple races. Seems kind of a silly exercise. As a half-breed myself, I realize how difficult the various combinations can be to identify. Hell I have problems with people who are of the exactly same background as myself and vice versa. ---
**Author:** ![straight\_man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/straight_man/32/3027_2.png) [@straight\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/straight_man)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/website-that-shows-how-wrong-guessing-race-is/396287/17 "2007-03-17T05:29:51Z")
18%. And I go to an international school. :smack: Actually, that brings up an anecdotal point. Even with accents available, I didn’t learn everyone’s country of origin (in one notable case, I mistook a Greenlander for a Pacific Islander) for a rather long time. I’m still not sure I have everyone down pat. ---
**Author:** ![Santo\_Rugger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Santo\_Rugger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santo_Rugger)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/website-that-shows-how-wrong-guessing-race-is/396287/18 "2007-03-17T05:32:27Z")
[QUOTE=Neptunian Slug] I got 9 out of 6. I missed the first four not realizing that I should be picking multiple races. Seems kind of a silly exercise. As a half-breed myself, I realize how difficult the various combinations can be to identify. Hell I have problems with people who are of the exactly same background as myself and vice versa. [/QUOTE] 9 out of 6? WOW, you’re GOOD! I got 31% myself. ---
**Author:** ![Rucksinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/898d66/32.png) [@Rucksinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rucksinator)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/website-that-shows-how-wrong-guessing-race-is/396287/19 "2007-03-17T05:40:40Z")
I only got 25% right. In my defense: 1.) Latino isn’t a race 2.) There’s no way that #7 doesn’t have any non-African in her. 3.) Hi Opal! ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/website-that-shows-how-wrong-guessing-race-is/396287/20 "2007-03-17T05:43:27Z")
Yeah, the dutch/asian girl is insanly hot. That is all. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/website-that-shows-how-wrong-guessing-race-is/396287.md?page=2)