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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Whew, seeing some skinny black dude with big ears on my tv screen for 8 years was just a trick of the mind.
I saw the young woman. I’m an old geezer.
I think the image you see may not be due to your age, but your outlook on life. A younger person is more generally “looking ahead” and living more “in the now”. But anyone at any age can live that way if they chose.
Lol
Absolutely!
Whether you could be bothered to follow the click-bait headline also might show how old you are.
I’m over 60 and I see the young woman looking away. Can’t find the old woman.
I don't think there's very much else at the link.
My self.
It really took quite some time to see the old one.
How embarrasing!
Not really. She mistakenly thought my reply was to her.
All I can see is the old woman.. I’m 62 and 1/2. Heh.
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