Logical puzzles, perceptive puzzles and optical illusions are very popular on the Internet. Most of us have probably come across the image “My wife or my mother-in-law” at least once. It turns out that scientists also took a closer look at it and found an interesting relationship. What?
What do you see in the picture? Popular optical illusion
The puzzle “My wife or my mother-in-law” is one of the most popular and most frequently published optical puzzles that we can find on the Internet. When looking at the picture, some see a young woman, others an old lady. What determines what you see? Scientists decided to investigate this topic and reached interesting conclusions. But before we get to them, take a look at the image below and check what you saw first – the woman or the old woman?
My wife and my mother-in-law. Optical illusion My wife and my mother-in-law. Optical illusion. photo: commons.wikimedia.org / Library of Congress
Optical illusion with a woman. What you see in the picture may be related to your age
Looking at the above picture, we can see a young woman with her back slightly turned to us, wearing a band around her neck and with a visible ear, or a close-up of the face of an elderly lady in profile, for whom the previously mentioned ear is an eye and jewelry is a mouth. What did you manage to see? According to research, the result often depends on our age. Australian scientists conducted a study during which they showed a slightly simplified, sketchy version of the image to 393 people (242 men and 151 women) from the United States, aged 18 to 68, most of whom were younger, and the average age was 32. Everyone saw the graphic for just half a second. As it turned out?
Research has shown that it is easier for us to notice a person whose age is similar to ours. Thus, most of the participants, i.e. people aged 18 to 30, saw a younger woman at first glance, while a significant minority (participants over 30 years old) saw an old woman. What did you notice?
Source: Gazeta
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