People Are Not Very Good at Matching Photographs to People

Current Berkman People and Projects 2014-08-25

Summary:

We have an error rate of about 15%: Professor Mike Burton, Sixth Century Chair in Psychology at the University of Aberdeen said: "Psychologists identified around a decade ago that in general people are not very good at matching a person to an image on a security document. "Familiar faces trigger special processes in our brain -- we would recognise a...

Link:

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/08/people_are_not_.html

Updated:

08/25/2014, 12:52

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Tags:

authentication biometrics identification

Authors:

Bruce Schneier

Date tagged:

08/25/2014, 13:30

Date published:

08/25/2014, 08:08