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One in 50 of Us is Face Blind -- and Many Don't Even Realize (theguardian.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: Ever found yourself confronted by someone who seems to knows you, but you have no idea who they are? You could be suffering from prosopagnosia, a condition that new research shows affects more people in the UK than autism, yet largely goes undetected. Also known as face blindness, the condition makes those who have it -- including Brad Pitt and the late neuroscientist Oliver Sacks -- unable to recognise other people, and sometimes even themselves, by their face alone. It is believed to affect as many as one in 50 Britons. Dr Sarah Bate, an associate professor of psychology at Bournemouth University, is developing face-training programs to help those with face blindness learn management tools. She says many people with the condition go undiagnosed. Its impact can be severe if undetected.
Prosopagnosia is the inability to recognize faces. People can still see the face itself and the features, they just can't recognize who it belongs to.
He's face blind, not ass blind.
I browse on +1 so AC's need not respond, I won't see it.
The obvious retort here is that Brad wasn't the one doing the choosing.
If you knew anything about women, you'd have guessed that the literature reports that women do far more of the choosing than men do.
Men desire, women decide.