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> what do they mean exactly? Firstly, this study explicitly prompted people first to visualise years as a circle, so there's no guarantee respondents do this e
by lucideer 3y ago
> what do they mean exactly?
Firstly, this study explicitly prompted people first to visualise years as a circle, so there's no guarantee respondents do this every time - so to answer your MCQ, the answer here would most likely be (b).
However, if you were to ask whether people visualise something (be it a circle or some different visualisation) every time they have to operate the "year" concept, I suspect the answer would be (a).
TL;DR: Aphantasia likely
fwiw, Ed Catmull's Disney survey on this topic is interesting (referenced in the wiki article above)
- gverrilla 3y agoYeah, it seems I'm very aphantasic. Not even deliberately I can create an image of "year". But I can easily write/speak a text about the concept. Now it makes more sense: people always made fun of me when playing Dixit, because when "calling" they would use 1 or 2 short phrases at most, and I would instead declare a very long idea, concept or story lmao. They asked me to be "simpler" or "shorter", but I just wasn't able to do it. It also explains why I always lost in this game because people mostly couldn't grasp my text-based descriptions (winning was never my goal, though). Perhaps it has to do with my bilingual upbringing: juggling with language was my main job for a longggggg time.