Summary of Did People Used To Look Older?

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The video discusses how people used to look older than they do now, and how this "retrospective aging" happens over time. It points out that people's appearances change depending on the time period they are looking at, and that today's adults look more like their predecessors from the past few decades than they did in the past.

• 00:00:00 The video discusses how people used to look older than they do now, and how this "retrospective aging" happens over time. It points out that people's appearances change depending on the time period they are looking at, and that today's adults look more like their predecessors from the past few decades than they did in the past.
• 00:05:00 The video presents the idea that people in the past often looked older than they actually were because of the way they dressed, and that this is still a reality today. It suggests that someone might be dressed like a time traveler, and that this might be fun.
• 00:10:00 According to research from Millsaps College in Miami University, this is what people named Mark look like. The study asked people to make and rate digitally created faces, and was able to put together prototypical faces for a number of different names. This is apparently what we think a Josh looks like. The idea that names might conjure certain face shapes in our minds isn't that strange for example, there's Wolfgang Kohler's famous finding that when asked which of these shapes is named buba and which is named Kiki, people of all different ages and cultures and languages overwhelmingly assign Kiki to the spiky one and buba to the Blobby one. The study found that people picked the correct answer, Dan nearly 40 percent of the time. In some cases our own appearance can come to reflect the name we were given.
• 00:15:00 According to the article, people's expectations about what others with a certain name should look like can affect how well they perform in certain situations. By studying voting data, researchers have found that candidates who fit their face very well are more likely to earn 10 more votes than those who fit poorly. In old age, people on average said that old age began at 71 years old, while people under 65 said it began at 65 years old. Women said old age began three years later than men did, and people who felt healthy placed old age later in life than those who felt less healthy. When people are asked if they could be one age forever, the average American picks 36 years old as their ideal age.
• 00:20:00 Eric's switchgeible has pointed out that dreams may not be in color, but are primarily indeterminate in color. Comparatively, reading is a novel in black and white as you read a story. Dreams may be similar to moving pictures, but they are not made of anything that is even remotely similar to what they depict. They are both made of phantoms. Images are uncanny things, and a person in an image is Frozen in time but yet can seem to grow old.