Big Nose

Taking selfies warps your face.  Not your actual face.  The image it captures is a bit warped.  Most notably, smartphone selfies make your nose appear bigger than it actually is.

According to Boris Paskhover, an assistant professor Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, people are increasingly seeking plastic surgery to make their noses smaller.  To support the need for surgery, many people will use smartphone selfies as justification for surgery.

“Young adults are constantly taking selfies to post on social media and think the images are representative of how they really look, which can have an impact on their emotional state,” Paskhover noted.  “I want them to realize that when they take a selfie they are in essence looking into a portable funhouse mirror.”

Paskhover and another researcher named Ohad Fried developed a mathematical model to quantify the selfie distortion.  They discovered that a selfie taken at a distance of twelve inches from the face makes the nasal base appear approximately 30 percent wider and he nasal tip will appear 7 percent wider than an image captured a distance of 5 feet..   

Up next: men taking smartphone images of their junk from a distance of 12 inches.

-- Mitchell Hegman 

Source: ScienceDaily