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[Angry Fork]

You ruined science!

Seriously, though, it's hard to write instructions for stuff like this that get people to do exactly what they're supposed to. GAF strikes me as a stubborn, rational crowd who will be more likely to give the "right" answer even if it's not what they see at a glance.

rofl yes that's basically what happened. I didn't want to be wrong so I put what I knew was the right answer even though it goes against what the question asked. It's also partially because you don't know what kind of answers the person asking is expecting. Most of us don't want to accept the idea of being fooled or seen as having lower IQ, seeing things incorrectly etc. If the person asking is asking just to see if we get fooled then I'd want to put the 'right' answer so I 'beat' the system, but if he's asking because of some meta larger idea about bias vs. what you really see and so on then it would make more sense to be honest.

 

[ihearthawthats]

gender: "other"

trick question?


i've seen some of these before, but i chose the wrong (obvious) answer instead, because thats what the study seems to have asked me to do. not sure if thats what you really wanted or not?

 

[kswiston]

I think the figure/background illusions are your best bet for finding demographic differences. The size and color and length illusions seem too closely tied to fundamental perceptual processes to vary much.

I won't be looking at demographic differences for everything. I was most interested at seeing if there were demographic differences in the first two categories. There already seem to be some interesting differences. Like, for the woman's face/sax player question, males more frequently see the woman's face first.

EDIT: That was worded poorly. Both sexes see the sax player first most often, but in males it is a 60/40 split, and in females a 85/15 split.

 

[gurasa]

Done.

I saw a fish.

I saw a

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dog.

 

[Ridley327]

Finished it for you!

Playing through 999 made one of them pretty easy.

 

[Like the hat?]

done/subscribing for results

 

[malfcn]

I deed it.

Saw a dog, glad I am not the only one.

 

[cuevas. PhD.]

Pretty sure I got 100%

 

[chaosblade]

Done, put what I saw even if I knew it was wrong.

And I also saw the

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dog

on that picture. No idea what the right answer to that is, if anything.

 

[Angry Fork]

What

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dog

are you guys talking about? And why are we putting spoiler marks? lol

 

[Wortany]

That B 13 one was hard to answer, I saw both of them in such a short time that I can't really distinguish which one I saw first, so I just picked one of the two.

Even others with crocodile answers, I thought that as well for some time, but after looking at it a bit longer, I rather saw a mammal eating grass.

 

[Shadybiz]

Done, that was fun! I saw a

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dog

 

[George Claw M.D.]

Actually, for a lot of these, knowledge doesn't make the illusion go away. The Muller-Lyer illusion, for example, always works perceptually, even if you can think your way out of it once you know what's happening.

Others, like the

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dalmatian

picture, or the saxophone/woman face can certainly be affected by prior experience.

I agree for ones like the "circles vs spirals" or "curved vs straight lines," but ones like "bigger vs smaller circle" or "how many colors do you see" were affected by what I knew were correct. Those illusions weren't strong enough to break my mind away from what I already knew was correct, and thus I would actually have to put effort into seeing the incorrect illusion.

As for the "spatial/numbers" image, where people were getting "13," are you guys counting cubes which are hidden behind/underneath the visible cubes? I guess it would depend on how you interpret the question, since those cubes are only implied if you assume each cube is sitting on top of something as opposed to floating in free space.

 

[les papillons sexuels]

sorry but why not just do research into gestalt instead of creating that test. Most people will respond to the strong postive shapes first, the faces first(matrixing) and whatever is written in correct order (usually left - right, top-bottom). You don't really need this test to figure it out.

 

[kswiston]

As for the "spatial/numbers" image, where people were getting "13," are you guys counting cubes which are hidden behind/underneath the visible cubes? I guess it would depend on how you interpret the question, since those cubes are only implied if you assume each cube is sitting on top of something as opposed to floating in free space.

I think they are adding together the cubes visible in each perspective. In one perspective you see a honey-comb of 7 cubes. In the other, you see a bowling pin arrangement of 6.

6+7 = 13

Even if you assume hidden cubes from either perspective, you don't get 13. Bowling pin arrangement would be 10. Honey-comb arrangement would be 12.

sorry but why not just do research into gestalt instead of creating that test. Most people will respond to the strong postive shapes first, the faces first(matrixing) and whatever is written in correct order (usually left - right, top-bottom). You don't really need this test to figure it out.

Because that is not the purpose of the survey. This is not for psychology or sociology. It's for teaching pedagogy. I'm not trying to figure anything out. I am highlighting process and connection to curricular concepts.

 

[Ultimadrago]

Finished. I love these optical illusion things, even though I'd seen many of them before.

 

[George Claw M.D.]

I think they are adding together the cubes visible in each perspective. In one perspective you see a honey-comb of 7 cubes. In the other, you see a bowling pin arrangement of 6.

6+7 = 13

Ah, I see what you're talking about. I, too, saw that the answer could be 6 or 7, depending on how you viewed the cubes. I really wouldn't have thought to combine the answers, since all those cubes couldn't possibly exist simultaneously, as pictured.

 

[TheQueen'sOwn]

Ah, I see what you're talking about. I, too, saw that the answer could be 6 or 7, depending on how you viewed the cubes. I really wouldn't have thought to combine the answers, since all those cubes couldn't possibly exist simultaneously, as pictured.

They exist in your mind, dude.

 

[dluu13]

I knew most of them, but I just answered what I saw, instead of what I knew. lol

 

[Lumination]

I knew most of them, but I just answered what I saw, instead of what I knew. lol

.

 

[Someone47]

That was fun. I saw a

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dog

in that second to last picture. Did anyone else see something different?

I saw a wounded man dragging himself to under a tree.

Of course I had to do this survey. I love visual surveys.

 

[OgTheClever]

Well I put down

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'desert valleys and ravines'

for the second to last question. It really looked like an

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expansive vista

at first glance for me and I never even saw a

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dog

after looking for half a minute.

 

[commedieu]

Stupid

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elephant

hurt my eyes.

Thanks op.

PS, gimmie a free pizza.

 

[Polk]

Done.
Had hard time answering some questions because I saw this illusion already so my mind "knew" answers.

 

[Vanillalite]

Done de de de done done! 7 cubes bitches!

PS: Screw you other people. Everything I saw was the right way!

PPS: I hated the elephant pic as I had issue with the picture itself.

 

[King Of Fuh]

Even though I have seen most of these illusions before and knew the "correct" answers, I answered all the questions based on my initial perception, regardless of what I knew the correct answer to be.

Hope I was able to help!

 

[Grakl]

I think they are adding together the cubes visible in each perspective. In one perspective you see a honey-comb of 7 cubes. In the other, you see a bowling pin arrangement of 6.

6+7 = 13

Even if you assume hidden cubes from either perspective, you don't get 13. Bowling pin arrangement would be 10. Honey-comb arrangement would be 12.

Yep.

 

[kswiston]

Thanks to the 500+ GAF members who helped me out so far!

The question asking if you see pillars or people first is almost evenly split. 50.5%/49.5%

6 cubes is more popular than 7 cubes (personally I always see 7 and have to force myself to switch to 6). 8% of respondents see 8 cubes.

 

[ckohler]

I saw the

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dog

also. Seemed pretty obvious to me.

 

[Rubbish King]

did anybody see anything in the black and white where you have to type what you saw

 

[Jakeh111]

did anybody see anything in the black and white where you have to type what you saw

Yeah, seen a dog sniffing the ground

 

[Kyaw]

Done!

Saw a dog too.
I tried to be as honest as I could.

 

[Dany]

I answered them truthfully even though I knew the 'trick' with them...