@RegularJoe thank you! This is quite interesting. I'd forgotten about the celebrity look-alikes you mentioned. I'm not surprised the studies aren't there.
@RegularJoe I'm curious about how this might work across ethnicities. I can't point to a photo, but several times, I've noticed people from other continents who could easily be someone I know here, except they're African, or Asian, when the person I know is white, just for example. Under the expected differences in hair, eyes, etc, the basic facial structure is the same. A DNA match seems less likely in these cases.
@thenewoil@mastodon.thenewoil.org Their PR dept has chosen (or been saddled with) a rather troubling phrase. "Know you over your life" has sinister overtones, doesn't it? It takes a while to parse. They could have said throughout your life, or for your whole life, or know you over many years, and it would have been both easier to understand and less creepy, but no.
@RegularJoe thank you! This is quite interesting. I'd forgotten about the celebrity look-alikes you mentioned. I'm not surprised the studies aren't there.
@RegularJoe I'm curious about how this might work across ethnicities. I can't point to a photo, but several times, I've noticed people from other continents who could easily be someone I know here, except they're African, or Asian, when the person I know is white, just for example. Under the expected differences in hair, eyes, etc, the basic facial structure is the same. A DNA match seems less likely in these cases.
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@thenewoil@mastodon.thenewoil.org Their PR dept has chosen (or been saddled with) a rather troubling phrase. "Know you over your life" has sinister overtones, doesn't it? It takes a while to parse. They could have said throughout your life, or for your whole life, or know you over many years, and it would have been both easier to understand and less creepy, but no.