What is cross-race effect? Putting an old stereotype to a test

For many first-time visitors to China and Asia, telling people apart from one another can be a bit of an akward challenge at first – it can be a struggle to get used to a country where the vast majority of people have very similar hair colors, eye colors, body shapes and skin tones. In social psychol-ogy, this is called the “cross-race effect,” a theory that has been studied for decades, and has shown that people have a tendency to more easily recognize people from their own race, and can find it difficult to distinguish between people from other races.

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[staticbuilds]

So the Japanese Asian guy was unable to see the difference between Asian girls faces. Doesn't that prove the Cross race effect in a very bad way. Then again putting a Chinese person in the test might of been better I guess.

[makenziadwell]

This prooved nothing at all...what was the point of the last question??

[FRNKNSTNmusic]

Not sure what this test proved. The Asian dudes did not do better than the non-Asians.