And lo On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 10:08:55 +0200, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> 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.
>
> My mother believes she can sing. Even though she's actually about a  
> fifth to a third flat. The result sounds truly *horrible*! You'd think  
> she could hear the difference, but no...
>
> She also claims to be unable to tell the difference between major and  
> minor chords, which is impressive given the vast, world-alering  
> difference between the two.

My father will happily sing and tap along half-a-beat out to music that he  
likes. Drives me mad.

-- 
Phil Cook

--
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