Crazy or at Work? The Fakey Fakerson Edition

In Crazy or at Work?, Watercooler by Heidi Nyburg on Monday, June 11, 2007

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New feature time! Introducing: Crazy or at Work? Most often synonymous , crazy and work go hand in hand. It’s a love hate relationship, love the paycheck but hate the interminable servitude. Now with our help, you can find out whether you’re “Crazy, or at Work. Every Monday, take a new personality test to find out just how close you are to the edge of reason or to jacking that Hot Pocket your cube neighbor has been harvesting in office freezer burn.

Todays test for the crazy: Spot the Fake Smile

Duration: 10 minutes or about the time it takes to get a fresh cup of coffee around here.

About the Test:

  • It is based on research by Professor Paul Ekman, a psychologist at the University of California
  • Each video clip can only be played once
  • Projected Outcome: Know your enemy. When John C. All Hands Meeting says “Great UI proposal! Your insight into our base is phenomenal.” Is the smile that follows: genuine, or totally effing fake.

    Take the Fake Smile test here: Fake Smile Test

    Share: We’ll show you ours if you show us yours. Tell us in the comments what your results were. We’re needy like that.

    Here’s how we did: 11 out of 20

    Ew. We are totally clueless. Basically we are living in a world where we can’t even tell if our own mother loves us. Here is a link to our results. We have to go have lunch with the Mean Girls now. They are totally our best friends. No really, they like us, we can tell frome their smiles.

    Our Results Page

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    5 Comments »

    Comment by Becca

    June 11, 2007 @ 12:08 pm

    Ooooh I got 17 out of 20. I’m not sure if that means I’m good at spotting fake smiles or if I just expect the worst from people.

    Comment by MissKitte

    June 11, 2007 @ 12:40 pm

    13 out of 20, yikes. This answers so much……

    Comment by Heidi Nyburg

    June 11, 2007 @ 3:24 pm

    17 out of 20 is great! I know what you guys mean though, are we skeptics or or just good at calling bullshit? I really want to know what they were saying to the people in the video to get them to smile. I was surprised at the ones I got wrong.

    Comment by Ang

    June 12, 2007 @ 4:16 pm

    I got 13 out of 20- thought I’d do better. I wonder how they got fake smiles and real smiles out of people?

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