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To: Daffynition
People underestimate the length of the white dashed lines painted down the middle of a road indicating that many drive too fast

Actually, it indicates that people are not very good judges of the length of a line they pass while in a moving car.

There is no indication that the speed of the car postively or negatively affects their ability to accomplish this inane task effectively.

In fact, the goofy study indicates exactly the opposite:

even when the students were standing some distance away from actual 10-foot lines or riding by them in a car, they judged the size to be the same: 2 feet.

17 posted on 02/03/2009 2:35:53 PM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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23 posted on 02/03/2009 2:46:23 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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