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You are significantly worse at distinguishing faces of other races.

The 'own-race effect' is a well-documented psychological phenomenon where individuals are more accurate at recognizing faces of their own race compared to other races.

While the Perceptual Expertise Hypothesis is a leading theory, it is one of several explanations; the 1969 Malpass & Kravitz study empirically demonstrated the recognition gap but did not establish the 'granular memory encoding' mechanism.

Your perception is narrowed by your own personal experience.

Where this comes from

Study
Malpass & Kravitz, 1969
What the check found
The core phenomenon is real, but the claim incorrectly frames a specific 1969 behavioral study as the source for a modern neurobiological theory of cognitive encoding.
Confidence
Solid, with limits

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One of these every day, and every one names the study it came from. When a finding is contested, it says so.