Super Recognizers, People Who Are Highly Skilled at Remembering Faces

  It’s estimated that around two percent of people are skilled at recognizing faces. We’re talking about genuine ‘super-recognizers’ here. In other words, the kinds of people who only have to see a face once to be able to identify it again, months or even years later. Furthermore, to be able to specify when and where they saw it. As you can probably imagine, this is a highly sought-after skill in intelligence services. As a matter of fact, Scotland Yard has a squad of more than 200 super-recognizers. They’re people who possess this basic ability, but who are trained to…