Perceived ability and actual recognition accuracy for unfamiliar and famous faces

The citation [98] is attached to the point about individual ability overestimation, not the earlier claim about data quality. The paper’s Discussion (§5; page unavailable) says observers’ initial judgments of their ability to recognize unfamiliar faces poorly predict their accuracy. It does not establish that the observers were analysts or that they specifically overestimated their ability rather than misjudged it in either direction. (LLM, conf=0.84)

The Introduction reports that face-matching performance declines when picture quality is degraded. It does not give a reduction of up to 50% or establish that this result applies to trained individuals; the paper’s own experiments compare same-image and different-image line-ups, not pixelated and high-quality images. (LLM, conf=0.88)

The General discussion reports that people’s ability judgements poorly predicted their performance identifying unfamiliar faces. But the Introduction states that observers could predict their ability to recognize famous faces, so the source does not support the claim without that distinction. (LLM, conf=0.88)