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david, if you can do the name to photo test.40=A0 in a 25 picture test. it could be an interestin= begining, I suggst you take twenty women =11 availbel on google or facebook and try. ,

Hi Jeffrey,

Sorry it took a beat to respond=

This weekend, when I have space and time, I'll ask a friend=to lay out some pictures and names and see how I do. And I'll report b=ck what I learn.

I've been thinking about this for a while -= and I do feel we ultimately need a more rigorous experiment.
But I like y=ur idea, at least to start, of just giving it a good and seeing.

Great=meeting you.
David

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Earlier today, I sat down with 15 =ictures and 15 names and tried to match them. It turned out to be quite a =truggle -- primarily because people were very similar. For instance, I'=d have descriptions like this:

Shy but relatively=happy on the outside Filled with frustration and anxiety Burning with rage deep down

But out of the 15 p=ople, that could vaguely describe 3 or 4 them. So my matching ending up lo=king like a convoluted chart.

What I conclu=ed was that I need a bit more help designing this experiment. Ideally, rat=er than matching 15 names to pictures, I have a bunch of binary decisions =A or B). One would expect me to get 50% right. IF the people are emotional=y different enough (happy v. sad, for instance) I hypothesize I will do co=siderably better than chance. Does that make sense?

I have started to go down this road with my friend at NYU. Happy to disc=ss with Gino as well.

And of course, happy =o submit to MRI machines and the like to figure what's happening on th=t end.

Open to any and all thoughts. Science, cle=rly, is not my gift.

Very best,
David

I greatly appreciatei the honesty, I don= think will work with pictures. but might work face to face. if it w=11 work at all. if so I would try 10 women, and t=n names. . you with need to touch each one. ..=A0