Yes , a mirror view is closer to how others see you . Though , it ' s still a mirror view which introduces yet another discrepancy our visual perception is not completely symmetrical and neither are our faces . The easiest way to notice this effect is to keep flipping a nominally symmetric directly frontal selfie horizontally and observe how the overall appearance of the face changes with the flips if one of the versions look normal then the other most likely appears slightly lopsided . <| sep |> Okay good , for a second I thought you were prejudiced , sure they aren ' t as good as us Americans but that doesn ' t mean you have to be rude . <| sep |> Not necessarily true if they live in a small town somewhere in Minnesota or North Dakota . Some areas over there are almost exclusively Norwegian and Swedish .