Who would you trust based on only appearence?

[GoodGame]

None of them

 

[Borachio]

What, not at all? Supposing you asked one of them the time. Would you be reasonably confident they would tell you the right time?

 

[Antilogic]

What, not at all? Supposing you asked one of them the time. Would you be reasonably confident they would tell you the right time?

They are all dudes, he might be a misandrist.

 

[Borachio]

Right. But that would limit someone to 50% of the population. It could be a bit of a nuisance.

 

[illram]

Always trust baseball players because they're too dumb to lie to you.


/long time baseball player

 

[Goodfella]

Looking through each picture I decided number two without looking at the results. Its strange that the majority of people thought the same thing in regards to something so indefinite.

 

[Borachio]

I wouldn't trust a baseball player to take my child across the road, then. If they're too dumb.

But this thread needs to say exactly what it means by "trust". Does it just refer to telling the truth?

Then it should have said "who would you trust to tell the truth based only on appearance".

I still have no way of knowing the answer.

 

[Goodfella]

It's not that ambiguous. Just go with trustworthy.

 

[Dachs]

Two NASCAR drivers, two baseball players, and somebody who plays for the Saints' divisional rivals...

None of the above.

 

[Goodfella]

Always trust baseball players because they're too dumb to lie to you.

Why are baseball players stupider than the rest?

 

[NickyJ]

Actually #5 is uglier, but he just looks kind of scary. Tattoos lower the trust factor. I know they shouldn't, but what can I say.

#5 from a few years ago:

Spoiler :

1) would trust to do some financial crime with
2) would trust to hire to beat someone up
3) would trust to keep alien/human hybrid experiments secret
4) would trust to be an undercover cop in a drug operation; close to trusting him as being my drug source but he looks like he could be a narc
5) would trust to hire to kill someone

Trust them with what?

I'd trust anyone of those with stuff that I'd trust anyone I didn't know with.

I wouldn't trust any of them. Is there some reason I should? And as somebody else asked, trust them how?

If you're car broke down on the side of the road, and you need one of those people pulled over to help, which would you trust more?

If you need someone to make a $10,000 cash withdrawal from the bank to ransom your family member back, which would you trust more?

If aliens landed in your backyard, and you need one of those people to negotiate a truce with them to keep them from destroying your house, which would you trust?

Basically, think up a situation where you need to trust one of them to help you. Especially if they have something to gain from harming you.

 

[Borachio]

Well then, they look about equal for all those scenarios. It's really hard to say. I judge as much on vocal manner and body posture for whether to trust someone. And then again a lot depends on circumstances and how much choice you have. Sometimes you've no choice but to trust somebody, for want of any alternative.

I'm truly sorry not to be of more help. Is it important? Have you got to choose one of these to ransom one of your family members?

 

[NickyJ]

I'm truly sorry not to be of more help. Is it important? Have you got to choose one of these to ransom one of your family members?

It's a for-fun, curiosity poll. Nothing important.

 

[Borachio]

Yes. I figured it was a fun-poll.

And I've been trying to work out some (fun) way of answering it. Beyond randomly choosing one, some or all of them.

Are you sure you've got nothing else for me to go on?

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Number 2 seems like he's on the level.

 

[Terxpahseyton]

Yes. I figured it was a fun-poll.

And I've been trying to work out some (fun) way of answering it. Beyond randomly choosing one, some or all of them.

Are you sure you've got nothing else for me to go on?

Just go with your intuition.
I.e. your ill-conceived preconceptions.
You have those, right?

 

[azzaman333]

None of them.

 

[Terxpahseyton]

The preference is clear. 2 or 4
2 was at first ahead nicely, but 4 catched up.
One got a totally faked pic. Faked smile, addtional ight to make him look better. Clean face. It all stinks of unreal and hence untrustworthy.
3 looks just weird. Extraterratial-like as has been suggested.
5... well, I just save my breath here.

So you are left with 2 and 4. I wonder if I had picked 4 if he had been white. (sub-consciously, naturally)

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

How could anyone pick 4? That smile looks really fake. It's a mouth-smile, not a whole face one.

 

[Terxpahseyton]

That it is no genuine smile is obvious on the face of it (HAHA! ... that was pun)
What matters here is that this faked smile is of very little "fakedness". The guy isn't shoving down your throat one of those "Arghh my lips are forcing their way to the boarders of my face"-smile, but a causal, totally ordinary type of faked smile most make use of different times of every day. This smile is not set to deceive (as the one of number one) but merely an acknowledgement of most rudimentary social conventions (though I acknowledge that this is an above-average difficult topic for some around here).
In short the guy seems harmless. And that is trustworthy, because you won't get harmed.

Now if he only was white and I could be sure he doesn't do drugs for which he would sell my ass...