How do you spot someone in a crowd? Is it by their clothes? Maybe by the way they style their hair? Or is it, like Mark Nixon, by âthe bits theyâre prepared to exposeâ?
Nixon isnât being lewd here. Rather, he is a specialist in what he terms âidentity scienceâ â and what heâs trying to say is that people are really quite recognisable.
Take just the face, he says:Â âDid you know you could recognise people from their nose? And that ears show your gender?
âActually,â he enthuses, âIâd say any bit youâre prepared to reveal, you could usually be recognised by.â
Of course, Nixonâs use of the term ârecognisedâ is pretty loose.