I attended a talk today at the AnthroTech MeetUp — a MeetUp that combines Anthropology and Technology — where the speakers were discussing the phenomenon of on-line dating. My favorite question from the audience was about the disparity between the profile someone presents on-line, and what happens when you meet them in person.<\/p>\n
His very words, I believe, were “You often know what somebody is like in the first five seconds after you meet them in person.”<\/p>\n
I then asked a follow-up question, which I posed as a research problem: “Would it be possible for an on-line experience to convey the information we somehow manage to absorb about a person in the first five seconds that we meet them in person?”<\/p>\n
I think it’s an interesting research problem not only because it might produce a useful practical result, but because I am genuinely unsure whether such a thing would be possible. After all, we don’t really understand all of the factors that go into our ability to size up a person in just a few seconds. Is it some subtlety in their voice, their body language, their scent, the way their eyes move when we look at them?<\/p>\n
Is it all of these things together, somehow processed by our brains below the level of consciousness, or is it something else that science has not yet identified?<\/p>\n
I really have no idea. But wouldn’t it be interesting to try to figure it out?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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