[T]he person you see first could be affected by how old you are, according to a new study published Aug. 23 in the journal Scientific Reports.
Posted on 09/23/2018 11:23:12 AM PDT by ETL
Do you see an old woman or a young woman?
They are both trapped in this famous optical illusion that first appeared on an 1888 German postcard and was later adapted by British cartoonist William Ely Hill, who published it in a humor magazine in 1915 with the title "My Wife and My Mother-in-Law." Using Amazon's Mechanical Turk, an online crowdsourcing platform, researchers showed the illusion for half a second to 393 U.S. participants between the ages of 18 and 68.
They were then asked if they saw an animal or a person and, if they said a person, what the sex was of the person. If the participants answered both questions correctly, they were asked to estimate the woman's age.
Most people saw the young woman, but then again, there were more younger participants (with only five above 60). The younger population tended to see the younger woman who is facing away, looking over her right shoulder and the older population tended to see the older woman looking toward the side.
Overall, the younger the participant was, the younger they said the woman was — and as the participants' ages increased, so too did the age they gave for the woman in the illusion. The youngest 10 percent of participants estimated the woman's age to be 12.1 years younger than the oldest 10 percent of participants did. This could be due to an "own-age bias," according to the paper.
We process faces from ages similar to our own more thoroughly and holistically than those of other ages, they wrote. Further, the findings could also be in part due to sociocultural practices in the U.S. that tend to be less inclusive to the elderly, according to the researchers.
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[T]he person you see first could be affected by how old you are, according to a new study published Aug. 23 in the journal Scientific Reports.
The squares in this optical illusion are actually square, though they appear distorted. The distortions are consistent with
how squares in the real world would change their appearance if one were moving forward toward the center point.
In this so-called Hering illusion, the straight lines near the central point (vanishing point) appear to curve outward.
This illusion occurs because our brains are predicting the way the underlying scene would look in the next moment
if we were moving toward the middle point.
The bat in the picture below seems to flutter, move and/or expand.
Moreover, when you stare for a while at it and close your eyes you will see a white bat!
If you loom toward the center, optimally with short, quick movements, the fuzzy blobs appear to flow outward way faster
than they should. The blobs have these cues of motion in the blur, which tells your brain to anticipate that they've moved
farther than they have. (Illusion was created by David Widders.)
Inside-Out Cube
Called Rubin's vase or Rubin face, this ambiguous figure can be interpreted accurately in
two different ways, demonstrating our ability to shift between focusing on the figure and background.
The younger population tended to see the younger woman who is facing away, looking over her right shoulder
All I see is Nazi Pelosi, now excuse me while I wash my eyes out with bleach
I’ve always seen both.
Can you see both at the same time?
I saw the younger woman first and then the older woman in a couple of seconds.
So, I’m a young all most 80 year old.
Can you see both at the same time?
Yes!
I see the young woman and I’m 62.
Can’t see the old woman at all.
General I see the young womsn first. She has more natural proportions while the old woman looks like a caricature.
No old hag there! So the bull$hit about being able to deduce the age of the reader is a really big pile.
Have you perhaps seen this before? I've seen it many times over the years and so am well familiar with what each woman looks like.
I don’t see an older woman. 58.
I saw both of the women right away, and I’m 94. What do you make of that ?
I saw the younger woman first and I am 73.
I’m familiar with this drawing anyway, so I knew where to look for each.
O-K. If I shrink the picture and look at it as if from a distance I can see the old woman.
i see a lady in a black hat. is she the old one, the young one, or do i need glasses?!
I don’t see the old woman either. I’m 69.
Patient: "I see the young woman and I’m 62. Can’t see the old woman at all."
Shrink: "Sir, you, are what we in the field call a dirty old man."
Yes, which is unnerving sometimes. The younger one appears to be a memory of the older one’s past self, given what part of the older woman’s head she appears on.
The young girls necklace is the old ladies mouth.
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