Wednesday, October 31, 2007

The Spinning Woman's new twist

I never thought the spinning woman hypothesis would get so complicated. There is evidence that watching her spin really tells a lot about which side of our brain in dominant. It's just not along the lines of the original theory. Freakonomics has an article here with results of an informal survey of supposedly left-brained-predominant thinkers and supposedly right-brained-predominant thinkers. The results were inverted from what I expected. I was not alone. Scientists are rethinking this theory. Is the theory wrong? I do not think so. I believe it is the quality of the graphics and not the correctness of the theory to blame for the skewed results. We'll see this dancer again, and this time she'll have with better graphics, I predict.

Saturday, October 13, 2007

What do you see?

I found this spinning woman today. Check her out to see if she spins clockwise or counter-clockwise. It seems to originate from Australia... since cyclones spin in the opposite direction in the southern hemisphere than they do in the northern half of the earth, does that mean... (just kiddin'). Leave a comment about what you think about her and left/right brain perception differences.