How many of you see both a young woman AND an old one?
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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Me neither squinted,apetured with the hand, nadah.
Must be adverse to old gals
:)
Nope. No matter how long I stare, I do not see Hillary Clinton when I close my eyes. Thank God for small miracles!
To be honest, I only took one course in mental health, and that was many years ago. But based on that experience, I am forced to come to the conclusion that you are a deeply disturbed individual!
(joking!) :)
And keep up doing whatever you are doing that keeps you going so strongly at 94! You got me by ~34!
OK there ya go.
No one said ,Look for a frigen Witch.
I must be young at heart. Today, all I can see is a demur 20 year old woman with a fur wrap posing around 1890.
When I was younger, I could see the old woman, but she’s nowhere to be found now.
I guess this means I’m trying to find my lost youth.
Right. The illusion is basically meaningless if you've already seen it and know what to expect.
“The black dots seem to appear and vanish “
I dont see any black dots
I can’t see the old woman at all and I am 63.
Try as I might I cannot find an old woman in that pic at all
LOL...except I’m a woman.
thanks i will try again!!
I am old and always see the young chick.
A man goes to a psychiatrist. The psychiatrist suggests they start with a Rorschach Test. He holds up the first picture and asks the man what he sees.
"People having sex in a park," the man replies.
The psychiatrist holds up the second picture.
"People having sex in a boat."
He holds up the third picture.
"People having sex at the beach."
This goes on for the rest of the set of pictures; the man says he see people having sex in every one of the pictures. At the end of the test, the psychiatrist looks over his notes and says, "It looks like you have a preoccupation with sex."
And the man replies, "Well, you're the one with the dirty pictures."
How many of you see both a young woman AND an old one?
Same here. 63
Hey Cuz Freep,
I’m also “seasoned” and can only see a young woman. Maybe it’s a guy thing...
I see a young woman—and on the day i was born, Sabres and MiGs were shooting at each other over Pyongyang.
The old woman is in profile, looking down with (large) nose pointing to the left. Black hair, white scarf. Black fuzzy collar.
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