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> Screens and remotes, and I think there’s something sort of anti-humanly human about it. Actually, it's the reverse. The orienting response is wired in quite
by bsder 2y ago
> Screens and remotes, and I think there’s something sort of anti-humanly human about it.
Actually, it's the reverse. The orienting response is wired in quite deeply.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orienting_response https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orienting_response
When I was teaching, I used to force students using laptops to sit near the back of the room for exactly this reason. It's almost impossible for humans to ignore a flickering screen.
- strogonoff 2y agoSensitivity to stimuli behind orienting impulse varies by individual and I wish I was less sensitive on daily basis. These days screen brightness goes pretty high and it is unbelievable how many people seem to never use their screen (phone or laptop) on anything less than 100% brightness in any situation and are seemingly not bothered by flickering bright light or noise sources. I am nostalgic about old laptops’ dim LCD screens that I saw a few times as a kid, they did not flicker much and had a narrow angle of view. I suspect they would even be fine in a darkened classroom.
- Al-Khwarizmi 2y agoThe last few times I've bought a new monitor, I've gone through the process of adjusting brightness based on comparing a document on screen to a paper sheet. This invariably results into going from defaults of 50-70% to very low figures like 5-15%, and it's not that I work in dark places, my offices have reasonable light from outside. I would be extremely uncomfortable using default settings, for me they are absurdly bright.