Holy AllLookSame, Batman!
Approximately 5 years ago, a website called AllLookSame.com was a brief phenomenon amongst the quaids, and still gets referenced frequently. It’s a website in which you are presented with an Asian face and have to decide if he or she is Chinese, Japanese, or Korean. It’s harder than you think. I’m not a stuffwhitepeoplelike fan, but I’m pretty sure “feeling racist” is an entry, or at least should be.
It was even more tickly because our white/brown quaids did markedly better than the Asian quaids, who consistently did no better than chance.
AllLookSame has nothing on this site that loyal, nay, obsessive reader Ty sent my way in terms of making one feel over-privileged, racist, classist, mental handicapist, judgmental, bigoted, misogynistic, and delightful.
At PickThePerp.com, you are presented with 5 random mugshots and the name of a crime (did you know what “utter forged instrument” was?), and you have to match the mugshot to the crime. I highly recommend you play. When was the last time you really sat down and thought about what kind of person actually gets arrested for flashing, or what a person who misses their court date looks like? Pre-reading book judging is fun, and Malcolm Gladwell is so right.
Here’s my score. I did 50% better than chance. I feel so conflicted about this because I’m pretty sure that’s a good score, but I’m also pretty sure that I’m the most racist guy ever.
If you play, post your score in the comments, you racist, classist, terrible quaids.








You’ve correctly matched 8 perps in 15 lineups (53.33%)
Current Streak: 4 | Best Streak: 4
Holla!!
I peaked around 36% accuracy, but what surprised me was that I was being mostly racist towards the whites in the lineup (as in, if there were 3 black pictures and 2 white pictures, I’d always pick a white guy [and usually be wrong]). I’m not sure if I was more bothered by that or by how much I was trying to turn this into a logic puzzle, evaluating the clothing, medical and emotional states of the people before each guess.