Can you tell who is studying what by the way they dress?

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You can tell a lot about a student’s academic discipline from their clothes. Our research has shown that you can even recognize a person’s field of study by the way they dress.

At Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany, a study was conducted to determine if students' clothing could indicate their area of study.

You can see the experiment for yourself with a small example. I present some of the pictures here. Try to match them yourself and see if you can find the right subject. The majority of students got it right. You can find the solution at the end of the post. If the clothing is not fundamentally different in the different countries and places, you may have done the assignment correctly. Students in Frankfurt am Main had much more difficulty with the following pictures. Here, the majority of students were wrong.In most cases, the majority can tell what someone is studying by what they are wearing. Despite several misclassifications, most students were correct in their comparisons.

 

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