If you’re having trouble recognizing people including family members, partners or friends for most or all of your life, you’re certainly not alone.
In fact, about 2% of the population suffers from prosopagnosia or face blindness, the inability to recognize faces.
Often, people with this condition cope using other strategies to recognize by remembering key points about a person such their hairstyle, fashion statement, voice, or even the way they walk.
But in some cases, these coping strategies don’t usually work bringing disabling impact on the affected person’s life.
This is why researchers have come up with a short test for people with suspected prosopagnosia.
In the test, each item is given a score out of five, giving a total score of up to 100. The final score will help identify if a person has prosopagnosia as well as its severity.
The questionnaire’s effectiveness was verified by testing it in several validation studies.
“Combining our test – termed the “20-item Prosopagnosia Index” – with others will help improve diagnosis of face blindness, helping to remove much of the uncertainty around many existing tests,” said Punit Shah, lead researcher at Medical Research Centre’s Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre at King’s College London.
The following statements inquire about your face recognition abilities. For each item, indicate how much you agree or disagree by choosing the appropriate numbered response on a scale of one to five. One represents you strongly agree while five represents you strongly disagree.
Read each item carefully before responding and answer as honestly as possible
For each question, other than those named below score one point 1-5 (with one being strongly disagree and 5 being strongly agree) Items 8, 9, 13, 17 and 19 should be reverse scored. i.e., 5 = 1; 4 = 2; 3 = 3; 2 = 4; 1 = 5 2.
Add together the numbered responses to calculate a score between 20 (unimpaired face recognition) to 100 (severely impaired face recognition).
Source: The Daily Mail UK
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