It’s been an incredible week! I met some exceptional and amazing people! After training several thousand law enforcement professionals across the country, I decided to open my training to the public. I set up the course, got registrations and the class kicked off on Monday! For three days, I talked about human behavior and deception detection in a “master class” at the Milwaukee Hilton Garden Inn.
Participants flew in not only from across the country–New York City, New Jersey, Atlanta, Chicago, San Diego, and Denver–but internationally as well coming from as far away as Auckland, New Zealand, and Quebec, Canada!
Everyone in the class was extremely enthusiastic and motivated to learn, and great friendships were formed! We truly had fun and even dined together over lunch all three days!
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MSN.com posted “54 Photos Of Inexplicable Celeb Friendships,” and in the grouping of photos there was a photo of Amy Schumer and Jennifer Lawrence.
Amy Schumer’s expression popped out at me immediately.
What universal facial expression is she making?
I am shocked at magazines, and publications that buy and print these “so-called” smile expressions that are anything but a smile. Do you think they print them because they don’t know any better, or they are looking for a response?
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60 Minutes on Sunday night did a story on face blindness (also known as prosopagnosia). I suspect you probably take your ability to identify people by their face for granted, but not everyone is so blessed. People who suffer from face blindness cannot use facial features such as eyes, nose, lips or face shape to recognize a face. Instead, they rely on hair style, clothing style, gait, voice, etc. to identiy people in their life.
Scientists estimate 1 in 50 people suffer from this disorder, and they are either born this way, or lose the ability after a stroke or injury.
How do you recognize a face of a friend or family member?
How do you differentiate your dad’s facial features from your uncle, or the man next door?
How would tell someone to identify that this man is Bob and not Bill? And that Bill is not John, or Tim, or Zack!
Are you scratching your head?
We do a lot of powerful things with our subconscious mind, don’t we?
You don’t have to think about how you know Susan from Sandy, or Bill from Bob, or your co-worker from your neighbor. You just do it naturally and intuitively. You recognize the subtle differences that make up each face. But scientists don’t know how we do that. And when you think about it–it is complex.
How would tell a face blind person how you read people’s identity through their faces so they could identify 100 different men or women?
I somewhat liken face blindness to what I do. I see so many subtle elements that people communicate that others don’t, and I can tell you in a very challenging to communicate those subtleties to other people. You think all people see them, but they don’t.
Next time you run into someone that doesn’t seem to recognize you–give them a little extra space. They may suffer from face blindness.
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Every now and then you see something startling–something that bends your mind. It’s rare, not often–maybe once a year, if you are lucky. And when you see it, it captivates you. It jars you.You are drawn in and as you listen, time flies at the speed of light. That’s what happened to me last night when I watched PBS’ The Human Face of Big Data.
If you are like most people, when you hear the words “big data”, you cringe. How can it be any good, right? People are tracking our lives and what we do more than ever before in history.
Every two days now we are storing more information than all of history up until 2003. That’s staggering! We’ve lost our privacy, we are being targeted by ads more precisely and invasively than ever, and big data knows just about every single thing we do each day! How could that be a good thing? If you fear big data, of course there is reason to, I can’t say there isn’t. This show talks about that, too.
But there is an incredibly positive side to big data that is astounding, and no I haven’t just bought a bridge!
This PBS show demonstrated that we are in a “data revolution” and it will change your life and my life forever–rapidly–with progress we haven’t seen in our lifetimes. The growth we are going to experience in understanding human behavior and our health in the next ten years is going to be mind-bending. I am that excited about this!
You see, big data reveals invisible, never-before seen patterns about us as humans. It reveals how we behave, about our health, and what we do on a level none of us have ever seen before, and what it reveals is startling, fascinating and exciting!
It makes science-fiction look dull.
In this one-hour show, what data has uncovered will literally stop you in your tracks.
By watching Google searches (as seen in the video above), researchers found that they could predict the flu a full two weeks before the CDC.
In the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), when babies get an infection, it is very serious and often life-threatening. One person decided to track every bit of data they could from these babies, and they found there are signs that babies give in their data that signify an infection is starting–long before we ever see a thing! Isn’t that amazing??
By tracking mobile users in malaria-infected areas, we are now able to much more effectively treat malaria and have brought infections down by 25%!
Boston now takes data from a mobile app called “Street Bump” that tracks locations and bumps in the road as you travel, and feeds that data back to the city to make repairs for potholes! Another app watches people’s behavior and can predict depression two days before actual symptoms appear. How is that? People who are depressed stop going out, and slow down their interactions with others via social media and email.
Think about how powerful data can be! It will revolutionize how we understand our world, each other and ourselves without question!
I can’t even do this show justice talking about it. You have to see it.This is our future. This data revolution is going to change all of our lives and what we learn will be incredible, amazing, scary and shocking.
You just have to check out this show! It’s one-in-a-million!
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