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Which way is the woman turning?

Which way is the woman turning?


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  • Poll closed .
I'm not sure I buy into all that right brain/ left brain crap. These tests are awfully inconsistent. When I first saw her she was spinning clockwise so I was using my right brain in the beginning. According to Grannies test I favor my left brain. Took some other tests and some say I'm right brained, some say left. I think it's all bull$hit and we use whatever parts of our brain we need for the task at hand. Only favoring a side when an activity calls for it.

I'm pretty sure it's scientific fact that the left and right hemispheres process information differently, and that most people use one hemisphere more frequently than the other. And we approach different tasks using different hemispheres. I don't think anyone's actually suggested that people will use one of the hemispheres exclusively. If it's true that this test is representative of which hemisphere we are predisposed to, I think it's interesting that some people will see her as rotating in one direction exclusively, such as Jallman. That's some serious right brain action going on there.

But I still don't know what any of this means (if anything at all) since almost nobody who voted did what I expected them to do. I mean, I wasn't even close.
 
I think the test is only revealing about those who are very, very strongly predisposed to using one hemisphere. For everybody else, the test only says which side of the brain the viewer is using at that point in time. Oh well, it was fun in any case.
 
Speaking from my background in psychology, I think that right and left brainedness isn't really that defined. Sure there are parts of the brain that you use more often, and it seems to be more dominant, but that does not mean the other parts of the brain do not work. Besides that, there is this huge freeway of axons called the Corpus Collosum that connects the two halves. Overall, the brain really just acts as one single entity, unless of course your Corpus Collosum is severed as shown with a number of experiments done years ago.

As for this funky image, after about 5 mins of staring at it, I can mentally control which way the woman turns. Her foot that is in standing position moves right and left in the pattern shown below, more accurately I think is in a rainbow shape pattern.

<<------------->>
\<<<<<<>>>>>>/
.\<<<<<>>>>>>/
..\<<<<<>>>>>/ It doesn't actually go 360, it's just 180 back and forth
...\<<<<<>>>>/
....\<<<<>>>>/

The trick is to keep yourself from viewing the back side, if you want to view the front side. But if your like me and want to view her back side, you just keep yourself from viewing her front side. You can do this with any of her body parts, but her standing foot seems to be alot easier because it's less to stare at.
 
I finally got the bitch to go counterclockwise and now I can't make her go back clockwise. I've even left the page and come back and now all she does is go counterclockwise. Which is really troublesome because it doesn't "look right" to me.


ARRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
I finally got the bitch to go counterclockwise and now I can't make her go back clockwise. I've even left the page and come back and now all she does is go counterclockwise. Which is really troublesome because it doesn't "look right" to me.


ARRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just imagine the windshield wipers dude.
 
It's perfectly easy to make her change directions when I look away from her. It's making her change when I'm looking right at her that's the tricky part. I can only do it when she's moved all the way to the right or left and imagine that she's going to "spin" right back to me.
 
I finally got the bitch to go counterclockwise and now I can't make her go back clockwise. I've even left the page and come back and now all she does is go counterclockwise. Which is really troublesome because it doesn't "look right" to me.


ARRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Adrian, what have you done to jallman, because whatever you've done, it's happening to me too!
 
Adrian, you are evil and must be destroyed. :2wave:
 
If you look down at the left corner of your screen, she'll start going clockwise. if you focus on the right corner of your screen, she'll start going counter clockwise; it is not an animation trick, apparently; it's an optical illusion (because I got to the point where I could make her switch directions every couple of seconds).
Although originally, I saw clockwise, and that is what it keeps reverting back to, if I don't make an effort to see it as counterclockwise.
I'm left-handed.
 
If you look down at the left corner of your screen, she'll start going clockwise. if you focus on the right corner of your screen, she'll start going counter clockwise;

When I stare at those corners she'll still rotate in whatever direction I want her to.

it is not an animation trick, apparently; it's an optical illusion (because I got to the point where I could make her switch directions every couple of seconds).
Although originally, I saw clockwise, and that is what it keeps reverting back to, if I don't make an effort to see it as counterclockwise.
I'm left-handed.

The only illusion is that she's spinning at all.
 
LEFT BRAIN FUNCTIONS
uses logic
detail oriented
facts rule
words and language
present and past
math and science
can comprehend
knowing
acknowledges
order/pattern perception
knows object name
reality based
forms strategies
practical
safe

RIGHT BRAIN FUNCTIONS
uses feeling
"big picture" oriented
imagination rules
symbols and images
present and future
philosophy & religion
can "get it" (i.e. meaning)
believes
appreciates
spatial perception
knows object function
fantasy based
presents possibilities
impetuous
risk taking


Eww, no; I don't want to be right-brained! I'm not right brained, none of those characteristics fit me at all.
All of the left-brained characteristics fit me.
This is BS pseudoscience, on par with astrology or phrenology.
 
logically, I can understand perfectly how its spinning both directions, but I cant make myself see it anyway other than clockwise.
 
Re: Which way is the woman turning?
logically, I can understand perfectly how its spinning both directions, but I cant make myself see it anyway other than clockwise.

here. That will help.

And this article explains that the Left-brain/ Right-brain aspect is malarky:

link
 
Eww, no; I don't want to be right-brained! I'm not right brained, none of those characteristics fit me at all.
All of the left-brained characteristics fit me.
This is BS pseudoscience, on par with astrology or phrenology.

So first you say that you identify with left brain characteristic, then go on to say that the whole left-brain/right-brain thing is nonsense.

right-ee-o.
 
some people might find this helpful:

woman.bmp
 
here. That will help.

And this article explains that the Left-brain/ Right-brain aspect is malarky:

link

hee hee, I can see it in that one, but even after looking at it, if I go back to looking at the first one I still can only see it going clockwise.
 
So first you say that you identify with left brain characteristic, then go on to say that the whole left-brain/right-brain thing is nonsense.

right-ee-o.

Everybody uses both sides of their brains. All the time.
Unless they've had a stroke or a traumatic brain injury.
 
Statistically, on average, left-handed people do tend to have shorter lifespans, though.
Like, really considerably shorter. About 9 years shorter, on average.
A recent Dutch study found that "lefties had a 40 percent higher risk of dying from any cause, a 70 percent higher risk of dying from cancer, and a 30 percent higher risk of dying from diseases of the circulatory system.
Left-handed women also had a 2-fold increased risk of dying from breast cancer, close to a 5-fold increased risk of dying from colorectal cancer, and more than a 3-fold higher risk of cerebrovascular mortality."

If left-handedness is the result of a biological abnormality or mutation, then this makes sense. That doesn't make it any more palatable, though.
Some scientists think that all the studies on left-handedness and longevity have been flawed, and I hope they're right.
 
Everybody uses both sides of their brains. All the time.
Unless they've had a stroke or a traumatic brain injury.

Your article didn't actually do anything to refute right/left brain information processing. It just claimed it was nonsense without offering anything else. But I fully admit that I only believe in the concept because it's what I've always heard. If you know of real studies done that have debunked it, I'd be very interested.
 
Statistically, on average, left-handed people do tend to have shorter lifespans, though.
Like, really considerably shorter. About 9 years shorter, on average.
A recent Dutch study found that "lefties had a 40 percent higher risk of dying from any cause, a 70 percent higher risk of dying from cancer, and a 30 percent higher risk of dying from diseases of the circulatory system.
Left-handed women also had a 2-fold increased risk of dying from breast cancer, close to a 5-fold increased risk of dying from colorectal cancer, and more than a 3-fold higher risk of cerebrovascular mortality."

If left-handedness is the result of a biological abnormality or mutation, then this makes sense. That doesn't make it any more palatable, though.
Some scientists think that all the studies on left-handedness and longevity have been flawed, and I hope they're right.

More likely the case is that they live in a right-handed world.

This makes things like driving cars (where's the shift stick?) more difficult and they are less adept at responding.

What about knives? Scissors? Flying airplanes (guess where most of the controls are)?

Common tools, electronics, even doorknobs are designed for right-handed people.

Over the span of a lifetime, I'd imagine there would be some basic affect of attrition.
 
Well, there are people that have no left brain functions at all. There are people that have no right brain functions at all too.

We call them vegetables, or corpses.

I think the point is that almost every task we preform requires both analytical and abstract thought on some level, and thus none of us could exist if we only used one half of our brain.

Einstein was a tremendous mathematician. Yet he could draw pictures, dance, and tell jokes.

Picasso was an incredible painter. But I'm willing to bet he could count to four as well.

No one can exist without a mix of both "sides" of brain function. In fact, I bet we can't do much at all without using both sides - well, not for long anyway. I imagine we'd bump ourselves off rather quickly without both sides firing properly.
 
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