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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I knew she would show up.
I can’t say what I THINK I see there. But it brings to mind Bill Clinton and you-know-who.
Lol! At least it wasn’t that same old stale pic.
All I could see at first was the old woman - after a few bong hits, both are clearly visible.
Lol! He’s right!
They all used to look pretty good at closing time.
That reply was to 2111USMC.
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And your point is?
The young womans face is her nose, the young womens bussom is her chin!!!
Point? It was a joke. Guy sees only what he wants to see, a pretty, young woman.
I see a young woman and I’m an old woman
See if this helps: The young woman’s choker is the old woman’s mouth. The young woman’s ear and nose are the old woman’s eyes. The young woman’s jaw is the old woman’s very large nose. The young woman’s chest is the old woman’s chin.
Boy, that image puzzle has been around for a few decades. (I’ve always seen the young woman first.)
I always automatically see the young lady facing away. I always have to wait a while or will myself to see the old woman.
In fact, I have looked at the picture more than a dozen times and I just can’t see the old woman. It is not coming to me. I know it there because I’ve seen it in the past, but I just can make it out right now. All I see is the comely young lady looking away. Weird. I know I’ve seen the old woman in the past.
Oh, FINALLY saw it. That took forever of trying to finally see the old woman.
I guess that is me. An old man who only sees the young woman.
I prefer to think of myself as “young at heart” rather than a dirty old man, but if the shoe fits...
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