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Marty Bonnar

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This week's GCA Visual Comprehension Test
« on: May 23, 2006, 06:32:49 PM »
How much detail do we take in of our environment?
How much attention does our brain pay to visual stimuli?
How often do we need to see something before we SEE SOMETHING?

This week's simple test question is (and DON'T LOOK before answering):

Which letter of the ebay logo is CAPITALISED?

One letter answers please (E, B, A or Y - DOH!) and we'll check the bell curve afterwards...

FBD.
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George Pazin

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Re:This week's GCA Visual Comprehension Test
« Reply #1 on: May 23, 2006, 06:35:50 PM »
Quote from: Martin Bonnar on May 23, 2006, 06:32:49 PM
How much detail do we take in of our environment?
How much attention does our brain pay to visual stimuli?
How often do we need to see something before we SEE SOMETHING?

Depends on how important the image is.

Quote from: Martin Bonnar on May 23, 2006, 06:32:49 PM
This week's simple test question is (and DON'T LOOK before answering):

Which letter of the ebay logo is CAPITALISED?

One letter answers please (E, B, A or Y - DOH!) and we'll check the bell curve afterwards...

I didn't think any were, but if I had to pick, I'd guess the B.

I know if I saw both, I could pick out the real one.
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Kevin_Reilly

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Re:This week's GCA Visual Comprehension Test
« Reply #2 on: May 23, 2006, 06:36:16 PM »
Anyone from the Bay Area would know that.
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Eric Franzen

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Re:This week's GCA Visual Comprehension Test
« Reply #3 on: May 23, 2006, 06:36:21 PM »
B was my instinctive guess, but the more I think about it my vote turns to A.
« Last Edit: May 23, 2006, 06:37:23 PM by Eric Franzen »
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Mike Hendren

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Re:This week's GCA Visual Comprehension Test
« Reply #4 on: May 23, 2006, 06:40:02 PM »
What is ebay?
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Jim Sweeney

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Re:This week's GCA Visual Comprehension Test
« Reply #5 on: May 23, 2006, 08:16:53 PM »
Y.

We take in everything we see. We just can't process it all at once. However, we can mentally re-create our experience.

THis is why hypnosis works so well with helping victims and witnesses of crimes re-create their visual impressions for the sake of prosecution.

However, we cannot react to what we don't see. That's why blind shots, undulating fairways, and other architectural tricks baffle and fascinate us.

It's also why a blind shot is only blind once. After the trick has been revealed to us, we're not easily fooled again. If we are repeatedly fooled, we've run into some excellent GCA, or we're really stupid, or just not very observant..

It onlt takes once, if we're paying attention.


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Dan Kelly

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Re:This week's GCA Visual Comprehension Test
« Reply #6 on: May 23, 2006, 08:48:42 PM »
You've hit on one of my pet peeves. (Because I'm a writer in a previous life, but an editor in this one.)

In the logo  (I knew without again looking), the Y is capitalized.

But (and I knew this without looking, too), the company's OTHER materials have not the Y capitalized, but the B!

As in (copy/pasted from the ebaY, or is it eBay, Web site):

eBay Express
eBay Motors
eBay Stores

So which is it, folks?
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Dan Kelly

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Re:This week's GCA Visual Comprehension Test
« Reply #7 on: May 23, 2006, 08:50:11 PM »
Quote from: Bogey_Hendren on May 23, 2006, 06:40:02 PM
What is ebay?

I don't know, either -- but I saw some runway tee boxes on sale there, if you're interested!

Seller's name is "B. Klein."
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Mike Benham

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Re:This week's GCA Visual Comprehension Test
« Reply #8 on: May 23, 2006, 09:38:13 PM »
Quote from: Kevin_Reilly on May 23, 2006, 06:36:16 PM
Anyone from the Bay Area would know that.

The logo has an uppercase Y (perhaps they want to channel their neighbors to the north, Mr. H's employer) ... but Mr. Reilly is also correct !!!
« Last Edit: May 23, 2006, 09:39:58 PM by Mike Benham »
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peter_p

Re:This week's GCA Visual Comprehension Test
« Reply #9 on: May 24, 2006, 01:00:13 AM »
depends on where you look. Once you get away from the graphic it is always eBay
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ed_getka

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Re:This week's GCA Visual Comprehension Test
« Reply #10 on: May 24, 2006, 01:02:57 AM »
B
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Jim Nugent

Re:This week's GCA Visual Comprehension Test
« Reply #11 on: May 24, 2006, 01:12:31 AM »
Quote from: Martin Bonnar on May 23, 2006, 06:32:49 PM
How much detail do we take in of our environment?
How much attention does our brain pay to visual stimuli?
How often do we need to see something before we SEE SOMETHING?

This week's simple test question is (and DON'T LOOK before answering):

Which letter of the ebay logo is CAPITALISED?

One letter answers please (E, B, A or Y - DOH!) and we'll check the bell curve afterwards...

FBD.

It's B.  I think our brains pay attention to stimuli they think matter.  How important is which letter is capitalized in a name like ebay?  Not very to most people.  

Jim Sweeney: is hypnosis really effective in remembering what actually took place?  In a two-minute search on the Internet, I found the following part of a paper that cast doubt on that:

"Hypnosis researchers such as Ernest Hilgard, Martin Orne, Nicholas Spanos, and Robert Baker have shown numerous times how easy it is to produce pseudomemories in experimental subjects who will state with great conviction that the suggested events actually occurred. Another respected researcher, Kenneth Bowers, has shown that when people are required to identify previously seen objects in a group that contains a mixture of new and old items, hypnosis can slightly improve their hit rate in correctly identifying the previously-shown stimuli. However, it also raises the false alarm rate --i.e., hypnotized subjects were also more likely to label as repeats stimuli that they had not been shown before. Hypnosis, in general, is more likely to raise the person's confidence that his or her recollections are true than the actual probability of their being true."

http://www.srmhp.org/archives/hidden-memories.html

Real interesting that hypnosis apparently is admissible in court, but lie detectors are generally not.  
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