"Its creation was used plant, capable of producing 2 million litres of foam per minute."
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1: It was just an advertising stunt. Do you think they'd really spend the money for its creation be new plant?
Hey, who knows anything about physiology? I would bet a lot of money that most of us could distinguish between pictures of random people having fun in bubbles and paid models. My pulled-from-thin-air hypothsis is that there is a difference in the muscles of the emotionally happy smile versus the posed smile, and that humans can subconsiciously pick up on this even if we can't consciously describe it.
Is there science to back this up?
(Nice link. I'm glad I actually clicked for once.)
I'm just curious if someone could drown in a sea of foam like that..
It looks kind of like someone put the wrong kind of dish detergent in the dishwasher.
"A place where we could show just how our products are designed to capture real life moments as they happen, in perfect detail.
Uh....
4: You could try taking this test. There's an explanation at the end. I got 17 right, but secretly I thought they were all fake.
Is there science to back this up?
More or less. Check out Paul Ekman's work (he says that there's a muscle around the eyes that's active in a real smile that isn't in a fake smile).
10: Hrm. That's really interesting. I thought at once, how could that test have real examples if they're all in a lab (which they must be -- clean white wall behind them, nice headshots, etc.)? Now that I've done it, I agree with you. I feel as though some of them were honestly trying to create genuine smiles, and some were obviously told to make fake ones, but they all come off as some flavor of forced.
I got 14 of 20, but I'm going to maintain that it's generally easier to determine these things given either a) a still picture or b) a real-life interaction.
(And Ogged, the BBC test that is linked is based on Ekman's work.)
Just wait until they find out that that foam kills baby manatees and butterflies. It won't be so cool then, will it?
So am I just soul-deadeningly practical to wonder how all that shit got cleaned up*? I mean, like where it goes into the stores? That just seems like a massive drag.
It is true that I spent yesterday afternoon and evening striving to make my back yard habitable, so I may be a bit tense about messes right now.
* Yes, it's soap bubbles, ha ha.
I mean your emoticon--I can see the link is for real.
Just noticed Gary Farber will move to Raleigh, North Carolina in May, and says donations will be very helpful. Don't think it's been mentioned here.
18, 19 that was just description of the link
D i can read, what the bracket resembling reversed elongated euro means, i have no idea
I just meant it could be more accurate to describe that link as :D than as simply :)
But :D doesn't look good in the font of these comments. never mind.
but the baby is not sticking its tongue out. Also inaccurate!
:))) means laughter, i love ready made emoticons
a lot of variations, pity those are banned here
:D meaning laughter may be more accurate then three brackets, ok, i'll use that from now on
I got 16 right. I thought some expressions were genuine, but questioned whether they were smiles: more pain and fear, than gay merriment.
A lot of neat tests on that page. On the "Psychology Tests: Reading Faces" I managed to pick extroverted faces with 100% accuracy despite being strongly introverted. Alas, as the test says likes favor likes I shall always be unlucky in love.