Higashiyama Atsuki and the “between-legs effect”
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Re: Higashiyama Atsuki and the “between-legs effect”
#2Is there something wrong with me or my brain? I looked through my legs in my living room and the distances and colors seemed the same as right side up.
Re: Higashiyama Atsuki and the “between-legs effect”
#3Is there something wrong with me or my brain? I looked through my legs in my living room and the distances and colors seemed the same as right side up.
I think you need to try outside so the distances are greater.
Or it’s all a practical joke and you have to do it outside so people will laugh.
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#4Fantastic read! I'm so glad that there is recognition for these types of quirky research, rooted in humanism.
I never heard of Ig Nobel Prizes before.
ref. Ig Nobel Prize https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ig_Nobel_Prize
ref. Winners list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ig_Nobel_Prize_winners
Re: Higashiyama Atsuki and the “between-legs effect”
#5Is there something wrong with me or my brain? I looked through my legs in my living room and the distances and colors seemed the same as right side up.
I think you need to try outside so the distances are greater. Or it’s all a practical joke and you have to do it outside so people will laugh.
There is most likely something to this. A dramatic example I've seen is where you take a picture of a head, and invert the mouth and view the picture upside down (so the head is pointing down, but the mouth is still right side up). It looks slightly off, but no more than any other picture that has been altered.
Now flip the picture back around right side up (mouth upside down) and if you aren't expecting it then it will quite likely make you jump back in horror. It actually hits some deeply rooted part of our primitive brain that just messes you up. (I just looked this up again, it is the Thatcher effect, and to me it is more frightening when the face is smiling).
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#6While the Ig Nobel prizes always have a quirky bent to them, I'm glad that they have a focus on this kind of basic science research. Sometimes understanding the simple things more deeply makes all the difference.
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#7Is there something wrong with me or my brain? I looked through my legs in my living room and the distances and colors seemed the same as right side up.
Worked for me. Couldn’t it be something about the framing of the legs leading to a different processing of perspective?
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#8Is there something wrong with me or my brain? I looked through my legs in my living room and the distances and colors seemed the same as right side up.
Worked for me. Couldn’t it be something about the framing of the legs leading to a different processing of perspective?
When I was learning to draw, one technique to help spot errors is to flip the drawing upside down. This made misaligned features, bad proportions, weird perspective issues immediately jump out.
Maybe it's the same effect.
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#9Fantastic read! I'm so glad that there is recognition for these types of quirky research, rooted in humanism. I never heard of Ig Nobel Prizes before. ref. Ig Nobel Prize https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ig_Nobel_Prize ref. Winners list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ig_Nobel_Prize_winners
They've been around since the early days of the internet, slightly younger than the Darwin awards.
You're one of today's lucky 10,000. :)
Re: Higashiyama Atsuki and the “between-legs effect”
#10I had heard of using this technique to show that the moon appearing larger on the horizon is just an optical illusion. If you look at it through your legs, it appears much smaller.
Also heard lying on your back and looking at the moon nearly straight up makes it look larger, but it didn't have a noticeable effect when I tried it.