And this is how the US left and right view things. Each honestly viewing the world about them, yet each seeing different things as important.
Understanding that your political opponent is not an enemy, or a bad person, is key to resolving differences between you. And disrupting that ability is a way to destroy a country from within.
Adversaries such as China, Iran, Russia, and others know they cannot physically destroy the US or the collective West. Yet they can, if done right, cause self destruction. They can spread lies, misrepresent, spew distrust, and entice youth's natural dissatisfaction to grow and flourish.
Destroy the US from within, and they succeed without a shot fired.
It matters not what actor is currently on the stage. Whether left or right, this president or next or prior, the hostility exists. And it exists in large part, thanks to our enemies seeking our doom.
When you hate your political opponent without knowing them? When you blindly follow political dogma without questioning? When you take a stance because a party does?
You become a useful idiot.
And sadly?
In this day and age, we all are idiots.
Seek that part of the picture you are missing. Work to get your opponent to do the same.
You may still disagree, but even the tinest expansion of view is a victory for you both. Even the briefest glimse of otherness, a win.
I wonder if the discrepancy in analysis comes from the way the participants are asked to view the picture. English and Japanese are vastly different languages and even a simple question can be translated in subtly different ways.
Huh. I'm a U.S. (and Canadian) citizen. I've travelled a fair but (10-11 countries) but never the "East".
I looked at all the elements and was trying to understand the relationships and why the frog was the way it is and why the foreground fish had more colour.
2 reasons for that, I think. One, that I was aware it was a "test", and two, I'm an analyst.
I may be depressed. I looked at the picture as soon as it loaded and then read the summary below it. Following the 5-second idea, my eyes were caught by the little frog like figure at the bottom of the image. My initial reaction was like "what is that little frog doing in this fish bow? It's going to be eaten soon."
I noticed all the fish. Not because I'm holistic though. I first noticed the big ones. Then though "hmm what's the trick" and carefully scanned the rest of the image because of that. But I guess the experiment was done in a more controlled way. Without "fish test" in the title!
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[ 4.5 ms ] story [ 39.1 ms ] threadUnderstanding that your political opponent is not an enemy, or a bad person, is key to resolving differences between you. And disrupting that ability is a way to destroy a country from within.
Adversaries such as China, Iran, Russia, and others know they cannot physically destroy the US or the collective West. Yet they can, if done right, cause self destruction. They can spread lies, misrepresent, spew distrust, and entice youth's natural dissatisfaction to grow and flourish.
Destroy the US from within, and they succeed without a shot fired.
It matters not what actor is currently on the stage. Whether left or right, this president or next or prior, the hostility exists. And it exists in large part, thanks to our enemies seeking our doom.
When you hate your political opponent without knowing them? When you blindly follow political dogma without questioning? When you take a stance because a party does?
You become a useful idiot.
And sadly?
In this day and age, we all are idiots.
Seek that part of the picture you are missing. Work to get your opponent to do the same.
You may still disagree, but even the tinest expansion of view is a victory for you both. Even the briefest glimse of otherness, a win.
I looked at all the elements and was trying to understand the relationships and why the frog was the way it is and why the foreground fish had more colour.
2 reasons for that, I think. One, that I was aware it was a "test", and two, I'm an analyst.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma_(negative_space)
I'd honestly be shocked if this was repeatable. A brief search didn't turn up any attempts.
In any case, this kind of convenient and interesting finding smells like replication crisis fodder to me.
Turns out I was right. Not sure what these pop-psychologists would say about it though.