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interesting test, 2.4 for the first try and 3.1 on the second
January 14, 2009 by Anonymous, 44 weeks 6 days ago
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That was interesting.
I'm 50 and male. I scored 2.4 the first time and 3.1 the second try.
Because the practice test was so hard I didn't realize until about half-way through the real test that if I relaxed I could hold a visual picture of all four images until the single one appeared -- and then it was easier to match.
The second time I relaxed and used an indirect gaze to capture the scene as a whole and as long as I stayed focussed and relaxed the image was still there when the matcher appeared.
I use an indirect gaze when launching my hang glider from a cliff -- I have to look at everything and at nothing in specific at the same time. I'm working at creating a visualization of something I can't see -- what the flow patterns in the air in front of me are -- and will be in the next 5s. There are many kinds of data that go into that kind of visualization but where there is vegetation that moves in the breeze seeing the patterns of change in the movements of ALL the vegetation is very helpful.
I was very curious to see the aggregate results but they don't appear to be available yet.