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5 Sep 2024 01:23:39 EDT (-0400)
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From: Phil Cook v2
Date: 28 Apr 2010 04:44:48
Message: <op.vbu6kzqamn4jds@phils>
And lo On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 23:29:15 +0200, andrel <byt### [at] gmailcom>  
did spake thusly:

> On 27-4-2010 14:07, Phil Cook v2 wrote:
>> And lo On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 22:01:41 +0200, andrel  
>> <byt### [at] gmailcom> did spake thusly:
>>> Hard to believe but apparently true. Something fishy in our brain. Jan  
>>> Koenderink, who was giving the talk, is trying to figure out why.
>>  Perhaps something similar to line perception where we overestimate  
>> acute angles and underestimate obtuse ones.
>>
> Is that also wildly variable between people? (I wouldn't know, because I  
> am only one person)

Supposedly 'in-built' but it would be interesting to run those perception  
tests on the same group of people if only to dismiss it as a factor.

-- 
Phil Cook

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