i look in the mirror as little as i possibly can
understandably isn't it
with his features
these pairs might look alike
but they're not identical twins
they're strangers
i look at him like the cute version of me
it's estimated for every face
there are seven matches somewhere in the world
he actually could do a murder
and that one could take the blame
millions of people across the globe
are now using websites and social media
to search for their doppelgangers
oh my god so weird
this trend has grabbed the attention of
a team of british scientists who are
leaders in the field of twin studies
what we want to do is get these people
in a laboratory situation
and say how close to twins can these
people be
they want to find out how physically
alike these strangers
really are we've going to score for
about 81 percent
similarity and see whether these
similarities
are more than skin-deep you are related
roughly of the order of fourth cousins
seven pairs of twin strangers have
agreed to undertake a series of tests
i would have thought this is the same
nose you sure you're not sisters
i think the best i've seen so far
they've got the same eyes same nose same
lips
they're going to battle it out to see
how far their similarities go
sarah is a little bit competitive she
wants us to win
we don't actually think we look like
much alike but other people do
i think we have the strongest luck but
who will be crowned
the most identical of them all who are
you talking to
i'm neil i'm sorry
of doppelgangers from all over the world
are meeting in london
yeah i think we look really like far off
twins i suppose
my first name is actually william but
his first name is billy and i've gone by
billy my whole life
i've always wanted to join i'm hoping
they'd be just like me so we'd get on
and we'd like to do the same things
i just signed up for a website for fun
and suddenly i'm sitting here
in a cab just waiting to meet my double
gamer it's weird
hi hi how are you
good how are you so weird
they've been invited to the department
of twin research
kings college london it's crazy like me
and sarah definitely look 100
more like than some of the actual twins
here
very similar nose and cheeks and like
shape of the eye
like even if we snapchat i'm like whoa
she looks like me there
these identical strangers are here to
take part in a unique scientific
experiment
that ultimately we'll find out which of
them is the most identical
the experiment is led by one of the
world's leading experts in twins
professor tim spector very little to
tell in terms of the actual color
between them
recently it's the world of doppelgangers
that's caught professor specter's
attention
i came across this when on twitter this
picture was posted
of a couple of ginger head gentlemen who
happened to sit next to each other
on an airplane who looked to me like
identical twins
the fact that two people with very
different genes
could come together through a whole
series of biological events
to create the impression of being a
clone i think
is absolutely fascinating people say i
look a bit like gary lineker
professor specter has carried out a
series of tests on a pair of actual
identical twins
one of twelve thousand sets on his books
these are very similar so you'd need
computer programs to tell them apart
we have lovely eyes tim i think they're
mesmerizing thank you tim spectre
their results will be used as the
benchmark to measure how identical the
doppelganger pairs
are the maximum score they could get
would be like the identical twins would
be about
90 95 in the tests
the pairs faces will be compared in two
dimensions
about 154 points on there
and using cutting-edge three-dimensional
science
i mean you could put one of those over
the top of the other you'd hardly notice
any different
next as humans read faces differently to
computers
a hundred people will rate how alike the
doppelgangers are
and finally a dna test to see if their
similarities are down to more than
chance
do you think we are related maybe who
knows
i can't wait to see what people think
definitely gonna be top three
top two top two yeah top two at least
it may sound a bit like a competition
well apparently we are in a competition
one person competing in the experiment
is 32 year old darren
a nightclub assistant manager from
glasgow he's still to meet his
doppelganger in person but they first
connected on social media
my friend gary sent me a picture on
from instagram of david and says oh
found your twin
if i had a twin that would be definitely
over 400 miles south in london is 30
year old david
he's a former nightclub manager
from poland basically darren posted
his picture next to mine so there you go
when my first reaction was what the
actual [ __ ] basically
it doesn't smell a lot and i think i
generally smell quite a lot in
photographs
there's like hundreds of them he's got
387 pictures
so look smiley face smiley face smiley
face
and the pictures where he doesn't smile
is when he looks
very similar
oh my god looks so spot on
darren and david don't just look alike
and have the same jobs
there are other parallels in their lives
i do have a pamper
regime um of exfoliating
moisturizing how to use my hair gels my
hair sprays
and teeth whitening things fashion is a
huge part of my life
when i was young i rather buy a design a
pair of shoes don't pay my rent
and there's one other significant
similarity darren and david share
so i guess you have to be blind not to
see that you know i like men
i'm 100 but looking at their photos it
can be
open to interpretation do you think that
he's gay
he looks hot in his scottish get up look
he does you can't really fancy him
though can you no no i would rather
sleep with a woman with someone who
looks like me
before they start their tests darren and
david have arranged to meet
face to face
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three two one in today's world
doppelgangers are finding each other
online through photographs
perfect and these images are the basis
for the first of the tests at st
thomas's hospital we start by analyzing
the two-dimensional structure of
people's faces i place 154 different
points around the face
so there are about 30 points that
outline the lips
and maybe 20 points that outline the
nose put them all into a computer
and these final scores um tell us really
how much do two pictures look alike of
two different people
perfect okay thanks very much i've never
been called perfect before
waiting to see if their winners or
losers in the look-alike stakes
are neil and john their doppelganger
story starts in braintree
essex it's where seventy-year-old neil a
former vicar retired so he could be
close to his daughter
neil was a stranger in town or so he
thought
i was quite surprised when walking
around the streets
i saw people wave to me
i thought well this must be a very
friendly town then we went to the cafe
in the center of town
the manager said to me hello john how
are you so i said to him i'm not called
john
i'm called neil
[Music]
anyway eventually it all unraveled when
we went on a trip
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john a 75 year old retired headmaster
was taking a trip with a local history
group
during which he first met neil in person
[Applause]
[Music]
i made my way along the middle of the
bus and as i went
neal went forward and he said excuse me
he said but
you must be john jemison
when i saw him i knew instantly why it
was he wanted to speak to me because
there i was
looking in a mirror
[Music]
our physical similarities are seen by
others more than they are by us
when i look at myself in the mirror i
don't see john
i think we're being called in right we
are and i look in the mirror as little
as i possibly can
understandably isn't it with his
features
now it's science's turn to judge just
how similar neil and john are
in two-dimensional photographs let's
look at the
eyes and i think
these are amazingly similar yeah they
are and we've got a score for about 81
similarity on that this is close to what
we're getting on our identical twin
scores really
gosh yeah if you weren't related to be
about zero and if you're identical twins
would be about
90 95 percent sure to get eighty my
goodness that's right
you look at your left eye you've both
got this
rather asymmetrical epicanthic fold here
it's not just that fold but the fact
that it's not the same in the other eye
right let's go on to the mouth now and
that's a very high
correlation that's a surprise
we think that the similarities between
our life experiences
that are the most striking thing
it's extraordinary same teaching
training college we've both become
re teachers now i finished up as a head
he finishes up
as a vicar we both have sons who play
the didgeridoo
both our star wives to marry us after a
very short time of knowing them
we discovered we were both co-op bank
members
clearly we have the same values right
down to where we bank yes but apart from
that
we're different
[Laughter]
to me you're nearly as identical as the
twins we see
every week kind of spooky it is isn't it
and just looking at you now you've got
the same pose
yes we fold our arms the same way not
everyone does
some people thought i can't do that
[Laughter]
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it's a flying start for john and neal
and a challenge to the other pairs of
doppelgangers
as to which of them will be crowned the
most similar
well i think we have the same color
eyebrows
i'm just gonna get grab a coffee and
he's coming with me and people are like
staring and like shocked she's turning
like doing something i'm like
oh that looks like me don't look like a
reflection
who you talking to i'm talking to you
i'm neil
i don't feel so weird about myself i
guess
knowing that there's another one out
there i'm sorry about the confusion
it frequently happens don't worry
what is your favorite food
[Music]
pasta oh my god you too
i like hamburgers me too but you said
you didn't like meat
it's salmon sushi yeah i love salmon and
seafood and she loves salmon
hello it's not meat it's meat obviously
it's meat of course right it's beef
but it's so many things in there that
it's not classic beef it's not a piece
of steak
so i'm not going to take you out for a
fine chateaubriand one day yes you will
a team of scientists at st thomas's
hospital london
are searching for the world's most
identical strangers
three two one seven pairs of
doppelgangers have been invited to take
part in a series of scientific tests
this is a world first no one has
actually looked to see the people who
look very similar facially
share other factors in common so who's
who
i'm the top one
it's said the chances of finding your
twin stranger
are one in a billion today darren and
david are beating those odds
they're meeting in person i just arrived
in london and i'm on my way to meet
david
feel anxious and be excited as well
well i do get you know the butterflies
they usually get
before a date
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can we schedule it for tomorrow
[Laughter]
[ __ ] hell it's so surreal
you look like someone i know hello
how are you yeah so weird
[ __ ] hell look at you
the middle of the face but the eyes and
the forehead is so similar
and your wrinkles that you have it's
like three lines and i have three lines
no i see four no three okay three small
ones on the side but yeah
just me being a [ __ ]
that is the weirdest feeling i've had
ever just walking in a room and seeing
something that's just
absolutely double and i don't have as
many wrinkles around the eyes as you do
that's why
it's because of this no it's because of
the smiling because you smile like
your life away on a daily basis it's so
surreal
it's like basically talking to myself
well i understand you i was worried that
i won't understand you
yeah i'm trying to slow down yeah just
you know turn it down
if you need a piece of paper and a pen
let me know drop it down
or text me with an excuse to get your
number
[Laughter]
um i think from speaking to him he's gay
he dropped a line about getting my phone
number if not i'm confused
who's the better looking one
i'd say myself if i had david's eyebrows
i'd be perfect
hello guys come on through well let's
get you started
it's now time for david and darren to
begin the first in their series of tests
i look at him like the cute version of
me like he smiles
stop smiling all right like all the
pairs
they'll be scored the duo with the
highest points in all the tests will be
deemed the most
identical when when you look at me you
don't really want to talk to me because
i have that
angry look yeah office this is just
oh it's sorry too late
so we want to look at what happens when
you ask to smile
okay so it's a bit of a difference
perhaps a bit more genuine smile on
darren's uh around his eyes you know
you've got those smile lines
let's go to the mouth which is a really
high
eighty-nine percent on a photo there is
pretty much as similar as you can get
let's look at the nose next and
which one's mine well you tell us that's
mine
that one that one i don't know we can't
tell the difference either
we come up with a stunning score of a 90
agreement which is
pretty much as good as identical twins
for your noses
see the difference at all you think
we're going to win we'll see
but i have a good feeling
[Music]
with the advent of social media the
experiments tapping into the global
trend of people searching for their
identical stranger
people like 20 year old recruitment
consultant fiorella from east london
[Music]
who's on a quest to find her
doppelganger
i'm mixed race i'm half muslim beacon
and half italian
i have loads of siblings
rodrigo alessandro melisa enrico
luna it just goes on and on it's like
the alpha but you know a b
c d e f g
i don't look like any of my siblings
sometimes i think i'm adopted or i was
swapped in the hospital like my mother
says
that is the main reason i've been
looking for my doppelganger
what if i find someone that looks like
me in
another part of the world fiorella
signed up to her website which helps to
connect people looking for their double
she's uploaded her picture and she has
to give details about her face
it asks you to select a nose type i mean
i've got a
big potato of a nose
over 4 000 miles away in jefferson city
missouri in the heart of america's
midwest
live someone else looking for her
identical stranger
22 year old mum and customer service rep
ambrosia
grew up with two brothers so i've always
wanted to seek out
that big sister relationship with
somebody
i created an account hoping to find
someone who does look like me
ambrosia may have found a match i was
going through
thousands of pictures and i come to her
picture and i almost like like
you know that frightened feeling i
noticed her smile
our smiles come up the same exact way
[Music]
holy [ __ ] your smile is the same
what the [ __ ]
and she's got the same like
nose and she's exactly the same skin
tone
at least she's pretty she's very pretty
which means i'm extremely pretty too
i'm just complimenting myself
[Laughter]
who's that a mommy
i'm fiorella i'm ambrosia and i'm a
doppelganger
fiorella and ambrosia will be meeting
before they compete in the experiment
also taking part and determined to do
well is 25 year old stand-up comic robb
who hails from america hi
my name is rob it's so nice to meet you
his doppelganger story starts with a
chance meeting
with 27 year old israeli kobe who by
strange coincidence is also
a stand-up comic
[Applause]
was performing in london at one of my
comedy shows
and during the intermission i heard
stories about someone who looked really
similar to me in the audience and people
were going up to him
and congratulating him on my comedy
and they always like wow you've been
amazing i love your stuff i love your
stuff and i say to all of them thank you
but i wasn't performing i remember oh
let's take a selfie before we leave
i actually wanted to posting that to
facebook and it went viral
i don't know 10 million views 12 million
viewers
ah kobe twinsie so good to see you
you're taller than i remember you're
taller than i remember
the huge interest generated by their
selfie has given rob and kobe a certain
confidence in how they'll compare
against the other doppelgangers we got
the beard
i think we have a very similar nose um
dark features
there's no way there could be more alike
people than us we're gonna win it hell's
yes
[Music]
the experiments moving on to the next
major test
using cutting-edge three-dimensional
technology
in the internet well we can't always
trust what we see
as photos we've got to judge it
ourselves and
this will give us some insight into that
introducing one of the most advanced
facial mapping systems on the
planet sophisticated photographic
technology
that takes six pictures simultaneously
two from the front
two from the left and two from the right
allowing an in-depth analysis
we can calculate about 20 000 different
points on the face
in such detail that it even gets under
its subject's skin
to the contours of the face so we can
tell how close your nose is
the exact size and shape of all of your
features
perfect so just keep looking into the
top middle one and in the crosshairs of
this technological thoroughbred
are rob and kobe excellent all right so
here he goes
they have an unwavering confidence in
their similarity
confirmed by their score in their
two-dimensional photograph test
for you on the 2d images we get a score
of
68 you're up there somewhere between
non-identical twins
and identical twins can they continue
their run
in the face of cutting-edge
three-dimensional science
[Music]
it's really hard to tell you guys apart
at all on that
you can see under here when this has
taken off the skin you can see the
structure
it's really pretty similar with the
folds uh
under the eye so the 3d score of the eye
you're getting 66 percent okay
now let's let's look at those those
mouths uh without the skin you can see
really the detail here of how different
you really are
both the size and the depth okay sort of
poutier lower leg yeah
i like to pound how are you gonna score
on those do you think i'll say like five
percent
six percent six good yeah when we put
all this together
we come up with a score that is
39 3d we did quite poorly
there are more tests to maybe to push
the rank up because
we want to be in the champions leagues
this year oh yeah
[Music]
jefferson city missouri an american
state which has been at various times
home to
chuck berry eminem and walt disney
and today it welcomes fiorella who was
flown from london to meet her
identical stranger i'm nervous can you
tell
fingers crossed that face to face
there's more similarities because she
looked quite asian in the picture
she's gonna be her any minute i'm
feeling overwhelmed
but in a good way
thanks see you soon bye
i'm feeling so nervous
what the actual [ __ ] so
crazy
oh my gosh hello hi
how are you i'm good oh my god
you do look like me i'm just staring at
you it's
crazy we have like the same
yeah you have you have eyebrows yeah
yeah
in the nose oh my god
and you're we're not even that different
in height at all we are quite different
at height
she's quite short and i'm thinking of
the hobbit
she's like the hobbit and i'm like
gandalf or something
i didn't know that she was going to be
that close in height i was thinking it
was going to be a major difference
do you want to come in of course i want
to come in all right
we even have the same double chin so i
have found my doppelganger
she is my doppelganger face facially
just seeing you it reminds me how
gorgeous i am oh my god
[Music]
fiorella and ambrosia aren't the only
pair of doppelgangers
seeing the differences in each other is
there a part of your doppelganger that
you're envious of
let's have a look at your face eyelashes
of course his facial hair she's got nice
teeth
about six inches taller than me
your butt is really toned which i'm
jealous of because my butt lost its life
when i had a child
even though it's still one of my best
features okay obviously it's height
let's see what else i'm the jewish
michael jordan
that's good to know do you want to take
my double chin as well i have one thank
you
my eyebrows babe you don't need to like
them you need them
before beginning their tests fiorella
and ambrosia's similarity is going to be
judged on a personal level
this is a dream come true for me i
always wanted like a sister around my
age so we can do this stuff
as the pair get ready to meet ambrosia's
two-year-old daughter emma
when we smile it looks just like each
[Music]
other
hello hi emma hi mommy
oh hi baby come here
hello
how are you so cute where's mommy
huh
hi baby
[Music]
two-year-old emma may have been
initially fooled but the tests at some
thomas's hospital are a bit more
discerning that's a beautiful smile
thank you
fiorella and ambrosia now begin their
quest to be the most identical of
strangers
first up the results of their photograph
analysis
so let's look at your noses this was
your nose score which was a really high
89 percent which is amazing and if
you're identical twins it'd be about
1995 good marks guys on the noses
but now the question is how alike are
the pair in three dimensions
now when we start to uh look at the
profiles here
these noses they start to look a little
bit different
there's a slightly different angle here
and i think the widths are a bit
different aren't they though
at some points so we've gone for a score
that was
really high on the 2d it's hard to beat
that one to a 3d score
43 the mouth you scored 29
on that okay i see of course now we put
it all together
you guys scored seven percent
that's horrible at school it's very
close to
just random people i'm a bit
disappointed
i was hoping for a higher score
considering we scored
50 on the 2d it really disappointed me
too
i mean it i don't think it's true
because
obviously we look alike resemble each
other a lot
otherwise we wouldn't be here
at london st thomas's hospital tests are
continuing on pairs of doppelgangers to
see who's the most
identical for one pair it's not just
their faces which are alike
both have jobs in construction and
there's another
similarity billy wright from usa
i'm billy rort 23 from bournemouth
i met the other billy through facebook
my wife's cousin
went looking for me on facebook and he
found the other billy
and he was insisting to that billy that
he had met him before
and i was like no no i've never been to
america it's not meeting that
and left it or that the other billy
popped up on people you may know on my
facebook page
so i decided to friend him and messaged
him and asked him if he thought we
looked alike and he thought the same
thing
everyone's got a twin on it they may
have the same name
hi guys but now it's time to see how the
billy's faces compare under the scrutiny
of three-dimensional analysis
so this is what you look like in 3d
pretty gorgeous guys eh let's just here
your skin flattened out
we don't have the shape in there yet but
we can calculate the shape of your faces
onto these sort of models cool okay and
look this way
you can see the foreheads are pretty
similar yeah and then
the nose not so similar right the bottom
lip yes
upper lips quite different and then a
little bit of differences there on the
chin
the eyes um actually were quite similar
in you guys we got
a score of 75 on that one wow
because your eye area is so close that's
why i think
people look at you and they see it
amazing similarity and we disregard the
other bits
like the billies a pattern's beginning
to emerge among the pairs
i mean you could put one of those over
the top of the other and you'd hardly
notice any difference
the similarity score around one
particular feature
is consistently high
[Music]
well you were 90 really yeah that's
amazing really undistinguishable from
identical twins
you can hardly tell the difference i
would have thought this is the same nose
yeah so you're getting a score of 90
percent on that it's like a twin score
yes exactly like a twin score so you
have twin noses
for professor specter these results are
giving an important clue to the central
question being asked
in his doppelganger experiment why these
identical strangers by popular opinion
are seen to look so alike a lot of these
doppelgangers have got some interesting
features about them that
marks them out and it might be that our
brains are picking up on that unusual
thing and if they share just that one
our brains sort of ignore the rest of it
but it's also reinforcing that view that
why you might get people coming up to
you and say oh
you look just like so and so but that to
that person
there are some features that um click
[Music]
it's not just the professor who's
finding similarities
spending time together so are the
doppelganger pairs
do you have any tattoos i do yes
yes i have one tattoo you do i do
no she likes kits i like dogs yeah
it is baby minnie mouse and it's sitting
on
my daughter's zodiac sign because she is
obsessed
with minnie mouse i have um
the date of my aunt's birthday i think
i'm craving
yeah i think i'm
modest she described herself as a barbie
doll and i'm a brat style
which i think is pretty accurate
no okay i'm vain there you go i said it
[Music]
the experiment at st thomas's hospital
is now moving on to its final
set of tests it means all the pairs will
come face to face
for the first time it's a chance to size
up the competition
which of them looks the most alike
professor spector is catching up with
the results so far
we've got a few sort of winners and
losers movers and shakers
david and darren their overall face
shape
the computer loved that one and their
score was really quite close to
twins
we're seeing john and neal consistently
up there i think
the way the aging has affected them so
similarly is absolutely amazing
you do look very similar have you made
your hair deliberately similar as well
no no did you do your similar we don't
get a choice
when the thatch goes you just have to
put up with what's left
they're followed by a sort of middle
pack of people in the low 40 percent
who are you my name is buck
and computer's telling us that we're
getting some pairs that really aren't
similar at all
fiora i'm john
robin kobe they did really well on the
individual features in 3d but
i think we're actually much more similar
than the computer
picked out i'm confident that we are the
most similar of all of us
sorry about it that's how it is there's
really similar ones and then there's
like some of them i just don't see the
resemblance
and then some of them is absolutely
insane it's the audience that are quite
similar now let's we can
we can all agree that their name is
quite similar
your smiles are very similar yeah look
at that i was like wow
you are so similar yeah did you see it
straight away yeah you're like there's
no competition in this like yeah she
wants to win it
yeah we're in it's over she'd like to be
the most similar i
am very confident i
bet a 20 pound note on it 20 pounds
that's all you should have make some
money
yeah where do you want to bet
[Laughter]
in the next stage of tests the
doppelgangers face
the public you're gonna look at their
photographs and you're going to mark
them from 1 to 10.
studies show that the best judge of
similarity is the human eye
we read faces differently to computers
and pick up
on other cues
so they're gonna first see the 2d photos
judge those
and then go in and see you in real life
and rank you
it'd be really fascinating to see what
they pick up on
because i think those scores could be
different and
everything could change everyone
has a different opinion and i think this
is what's so interesting about this
whole area
beauty is in the eye of the holder and
similarity is probably in the eye of the
holder as well
a hundred people have been invited to
rate how alike the pairs are
they've got the same coloring haven't
they yeah wow they
really look alike they would be the same
person he actually could do a murder
and that one could take the blame
even their teams it's spoofy isn't it
we're getting an
interesting variety some people looking
for really picky looking for subtle
differences
and that one's got a baggy eye others
amazed at how similar they are
the little bits of red in the hair
though are very aligned
it's reflecting our own personalities
how we view these pictures
there's like how optimistic or
pessimistic it's just showing
it looks like we're looking at faces in
very different ways
that is unusual but their lips should be
so so similar
lips in the eyes
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one pair's photo scoring well is neil
and john
they look very similar they could be
twins they could be brothers
could their similarity be more than
coincidence
the pairs have all submitted samples of
their dna so it can be analyzed
dna testing is going to tell us how much
they share in terms of their
genetic variants and also their origins
their ancestral origins which could also
give
clues about why they look the way they
do
carrying out the tests is family
historian brad
argent his results are of interest to
john
whose heritage is rather crooked i have
viking fingers my bent little fingers
apparently is said to be a viking
trait they are known as
viking fingers but will neil share the
viking gene
where you come from might have some
bearing on your resemblance okay well i
think
i have a strong viking element
in my ancestry uh i carry what's called
the viking finger
right i'm nothing quite so romantic as
that my grandfather was born in jew well
my maternal grandfather was born in
dewsbury what was
really stunning to me when i compared
the two of you you share almost exactly
the same ethnic backgrounds
john you can see here these darker
or filled in colors are where the bulk
of your dna comes from and when you
compare that to nails
look at that you know you're almost
exactly the same you're ethnically twins
if you like
it yeah you could almost put one over
the top of the other
but i have to tell you probably slightly
more viking
than john because you've got a bigger
chunk
of scandinavian in you well these sort
of images pretty unusual
to get two people matching uh in quite
such a way
i mean the chances are pretty small
about happening yeah and i'm sort of
wondering is that
what's sort of pushing you to look
similar
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another pair catching the crowd's
attention with their similarity
is david and darren these guys almost
look like twins david and darren
and the best i've seen so far they've
got same eyes same nose same lips
will their dna analysis reveal a deeper
connection
this is your ethnicity estimate 75
percent
europe east now that that includes
poland okay
but i will have a look at yours 96
ireland it means darren and david's
ancestry has almost zero similarity
i see the two of you and i just go how
can you be
so genetically different and so
obviously physically similar
the crowds continuing its own analysis
now viewing and scoring the pairs face
to face
one pair scoring well with the crowd are
19 year olds
cherry a youth worker from bath and puck
a student from holland if i saw
either cherry walking towards me
individually on the street i
have to ask myself which is it well very
similar you actually look much more
similar than your photographs
you sure you're not sisters
very alike and they've got the same
smiles yes
park and cherry's shared mannerisms are
connecting with the crowd
for professor specter it's an intriguing
insight into how people view
similarity in the flesh clues to
character
very important for the human eye and so
the way people use their hands or where
they're smiling
i have a smile for you please at the
same time
rob and kobe are also scoring highly
with the crowd
but with one born in america and the
other from israel
could their similarity be more than skin
deep
could they actually be related we'll
start with europe
a jewish and you know italian greek but
let's have a look at yours kobe and just
see how those two things compare
right boom so again this is strong
italy greece connection which could be
why there's some kind of similarity
certainly in skin tone
do you think you could be related let's
see
i would just say that my father was a
sailor when he was a young guy
the answer is that you are related yeah
roughly of the order of fourth cousins
it does mean that there is some reason
in a way that you're sharing
some of your attributes so there you go
guys yeah very surprising
yeah oh my god i'm shocked
rob and kobe's similar looks could
potentially trace back to their great
great great grandparents
with the perception test almost complete
scores from this test will now be
combined
with the others to find which pairs will
be crowned
the world's most identical strangers
as the count begins it gives the
doppelganger pairs a chance to reflect
on the time they've spent together
i don't look at him as a my doppelganger
it's just you know a friend the first
time we met it just yes we were friends
kobe okay give me a hug
when i first seen her you feel like you
know them so you're kind of trustworthy
and you're like friendly with them
it's almost like going to school with
somebody since kindergarten we're
friends on facebook snapchat
and she gives me my strength when we're
out and about he's encouraged my writing
enabled me to write my first real poem
it's weird it does sound like we're
lovers now be careful
you go through life thinking oh actually
i might have sex with someone who looks
like me but when you actually
meet that person you go ew
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finally after days of testing it's time
for the twin stranger pairs
to discover which of them science
considers the most similar
hi everybody
all of you seven pairs have been amazing
there was there was something about all
of you that was quite unique and special
all of you actually have got one feature
at least
that is just like identical twins
scientifically we are going to carry
this on a lot of psychologists
interested in what makes
people look at different bits of faces
what i want to do now
is reveal
who of you is the most identical
stranger hair at first glance i think we
have the strongest look
i think we're going to do very bad
definitely quite confident really you've
got this one in the back
yeah pretty much
with us people see it or they don't see
it
we don't actually think we look that
much alike but other people do yeah
first we thought we'd be top three i'm
thinking
maybe maybe tap five now
star is a little bit competitive so she
wants us to win the thing
i'm going to go through the the test
starting with the
2d computer images
the pair that came first
were john and neil
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for the 3d images things were different
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pair that came first
with david and darren
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moving on to the crowd test so now we
start
to add in the human element the pair
that came
first were
rob and kobe
so taking these scores all together i'm
going to reveal now
which of you pairs is the most
identical twin stranger that honor goes
to
john and neal
congratulations
so let's just be honest i'd rather be
the best one from the
scientific point of view yeah rather
than
from you know people's judgment the
court of popular opinion said that we
were the most identical
so screw science that's all that matters
is people's opinions
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in the past doppelgangers used to be a
thing just of film and science fiction
but now with the internet we'll be
seeing this more and more it's going to
be much more of a phenomenon
we're never going to live this down in
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