Is this Apple's Logo?
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Posted on 03/17/2015 7:53:11 PM PDT by Swordmaker
Pick any ranking of publicly traded companies, and year after year you’ll find Apple AAPL +1.73% in the top three worldwide. To say that its famous logo is ubiquitous is an understatement. It’s everywhere and then some. There’s a decent chance you’re holding it in your hand as you read this article. This is all true – but right now, without any help, do you think you could draw the Apple logo from memory?
If you’re like participants in a recent study on memory, you probably feel confident you could pull it off without peeking. But you may find, as they did, that it’s much harder than you think.
Researchers from the UCLA Memory and Lifespan Cognition Lab conducted a handful of studies to find out just how strong peoples’ memories are of extremely common things, like the Apple logo — things they see every single day, multiple times a day.
In the first experiment, they asked 85 undergraduate students (a mix of Apple and PC users) to draw the Apple logo from memory without any help. The researchers graded the drawings based on how well the participants positioned the leaf, the shape and location of the bite, and reproduced the overall shape of the apple. They also asked the participants how confident they were that they’d get it right.
The results: only one person drew the logo perfectly, and only seven drew it with just a few errors. The other 77 people couldn’t do it without major flubs, despite the fact that most of them said they were confident they could.
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I drew it perfectly...:)
LOL, don’t know if that is good or bad!
I drew two leaves instead of one, and put the bite on the wrong side. I’m a Windows developer, so...
Nope. The logo has a dimple at the top and bottom and a chomp out of the right side with a leaf pointing to the right.
Why would I want to do so?
Don't scroll down until you've tried to draw the Apple Logo. Below is some examples of the results of the testees and the best of 85 attempts. It is in the center of the samples with a perfect score of 14.
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Either they are really bad artists, or have very bad memories. The one on the lower Right looks like a bilious stomach. LOL! How did you do?
Not important.
Good question. . . but only 1 out of 85 tested got a perfect score and his attempt was pretty bad. I can do it, but then I am what might be termed an Apple Fanboy. LOL! However, the testees were a mix of Apple users and non-Apple users and it was amazing how poorly they did. What does that say about our visual memories.
I could also draw the Microsoft Logo from memory. . . but I used to do graphic art work for money. So that might have a lot to do with it. I remember what I see
You weren't the only one.
I know it like the back of my hand. Oh wait, I can’t draw that either.
Sheeeeyit. I can’t even draw a straight line with a ruler.
I just got done chopping up a couple apples...seemed like the thing to do.
Challenge...what year did the color stripes disappear? (Seems like yesterday to me). What was the fist product with the new single-color logo? Why was the color stripe logo "so bloody expensive"?
The MS logo...funny, I cannot conjure up any image at all! And I use it every day. I can kind of see the Win 7 startup screen a bit.
They had the choice of whether the leaf points left or right (2 choices), whether the bite mark was left, right or missing (3 choices) and whether the bottom was indented or not (2 choices) for a total of 12 combinations. Add a two leaf and no leaf choice, a stem option, a couple different bite depths and you are up to 80 different choices.
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