Let's try our own test: match up the names and faces below. You can right-click the image to see the real name (it's the file name). But do please tell your guesses! Your GUESSES are the fun part of this -- it will be really interesting to see if people make similar name-face associations.
The name choices for the faces below are:
Caroline, Hunter, Jaylin, Quinten, Mia, Aimee, Anthony, Jermaine, Kelly -- yes, one extra name. The comments explain why.
NOTE: THese kids are all aspiring models and actors and their pictures and first names were on the Web already.
13 comments:
wow -- I tried to cruise through really fast and go with my gut. To my surpirse, I got them all right except I mistook Anthony for a girl, so I called him Kelly. Pretty weird!
Oh, cool! Yes, isn't that WEIRD? That usally happened to me, too, when I've tried to guess names and faces on tests. It's enough to make you think there IS an almost magical connection.
I thought Anthony was a girl, too, which is why there is an extra, androgynous name.
Anyway, thanks for answering so fast and for going with your gut.
My guesses:
1) Anthony
2) Jermaine
3) Caroline
4) Jaylin
5) Hunter
6) Aimee
7) Mia
8) Kelly
I haven't checked if I'm right, although I'm really bad at faces and names and all that. I'll be back to comment after I check my answers.
Ha--only 3 right. Oh well. And I thought Anthony was a girl, too. Oh, I hope he doesn't find this and get a complex! I almost switched around and would have gotten Aimee right, too. Oh well.
I have a book about how names affect people's personalities, too--I started drafting a post about it, but never got around to finishing it. Really interesting stuff, and this was a fun exercise. Good luck in the naming of your characters.
Where are the answers?
That was fun, but hard! I missed them all except the first two. I think SO much has to do with personal experiences, people you've known of certain names over the years. I had a bully in grade school named Myra and I will always think of that as the meanest, cruelest name ever!
I do think you can change your associations though, I feel the same way about music. Some songs really sum up a memory or a time in your life, and bring back emotions you associate with it. But new experiences can change that...
Linda, if you right click on the photo or view "properties" you'll see the answers in the name of the file.
Or if you have a mac just scroll over the photo and look at the lline of script at the bottom of the window...
I pretty much got them all wrong.
Wow.
And people often get my name wrong (coworkers, other acquaintances) and call me Karen. So maybe I'm just a wire-crossed person when it comes to face/name corellation.
This was fun! I was bad at it!
yeah, that was me... meghan. I'm signed on wrong. but oh, I have the power...
Thank you everyone for doing this and saying it was fun....and in a way it's reassuring that the names WEREN'T obvious. It makes picking one for a character not seem so momentous.
I'm curious though if there were any that were easier or harder? I didn't get to guess so I don't know, but to me Anthony just DID NOT look like an Anthony.
I would probably have guessed Jaylin. I think that's a good name for her, anyway.
Mia also seems well-named though I'm not sure I would have guessed right.
Quinten I think I would have guessed -- anyway that seems like a really good name for him.
I'm going to start practicing naming characters by naming strangers .... and if I'm feeling brave, I'll ask if I"m right.
ANyway thanks for playing!
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