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Abstract
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Individuals with considerable experience in judging strangers in a brief period were asked to judge the intelligence of 150 subjects, on the hypothesis that the wide discrepancies in previous studies have been due to their use of a small sample and inexperienced judges. All the judges in this study estimated intelligence with an approximately equal degree of inaccuracy. They were no more accurate in estimating extremes of intelligence than in estimating average or near-average levels. Factors believed to be common to the 10 photographs estimated to be of the highest intelligence and missing from those estimated to be of lowest intelligence, were: symmetry and regularity of features, pleasantness of expression, and neatness of appearance. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)
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