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Higashiyama Atsuki and the “between-legs effect”

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Re: Higashiyama Atsuki and the “between-legs effect”

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keyle wrote: post #4

Fantastic 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 used to get a lot more attention, even mentioned in a lot of main stream media. Not sure why, but I don't recall hearing much about them even on "nerd" sites in many years. I just occasionally think to look up and see what's won.

Re: Higashiyama Atsuki and the “between-legs effect”

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Post by bombcar »

derekp7 wrote: post #5
bombcar wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 w…

Reminds me of the copypasta that’s says the “uncanny valley” indicates that in some time during our evolution we had good reason to identify something that looked human but wasn’t.

Re: Higashiyama Atsuki and the “between-legs effect”

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Post by recursivecaveat »

john2x wrote: post #8
lll-o-lll wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It sounds like the 'prism-goggles' from the article's experiment control for the effect of just looking at it upside down. Clearly what's needed is to hang some students by their feet and send some others to space to see if it's the inner-ear effects or the posture that changes your perception :P
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