I score 33/36 on this test and very highly on others like it, yet I consider myself pretty rubbish at reading people's emotions. Still pictures are very different to real life - here, I can rely on pure technical understanding trained by years of being obsessed with art (looking for eye creases, angles of eyebrows, and imitating the expression in my head), without the distraction of people saying things in direct conflict with the range of things briefly written on their face.

I suppose it's a works-in-a-test-setting trainable sort of thing. Thanks, comics!