On Tuesday, 26 April 2016 13:52:22 UTC+1, Mr Macaw wrote:
On Tue, 26 Apr 2016 12:15:17 +0100, whisky-dave wrote:

On Tuesday, 26 April 2016 10:07:37 UTC+1, Mr Macaw wrote:
On Tue, 26 Apr 2016 09:55:10 +0100, Tim Lamb wrote:


I like to claim good peripheral vision but 200deg. is only *something
there* or movement.

Not with me, I just held up a variety of bottles of pop at just past right angles and could tell which colour was which (I picked them up randomly from behind my back so my brain couldn't "cheat").

You can't really test yourself that's the point.

Yes you can and I just explained how.

But not exactly acurratly.
Now when you tested your cat your cat didn't know you were testing it.
when you tested your eyes you knew you were running a teat so were ready
and primed even if unintentianlly.

There;s an episode of ducks quakes don;t echo where they tried this out
on drivers findign that women drivers have better peripheral vision than me.
But one thing you don;t do when testing anything is to tell the subject what's being tested.

Go on try the other senses on yourself.
Stamnd in a dark room and sometime in 5mins shout boo see if you can
make yourself jump, then get someone else to say boo see if that works.

They did a similar thing with tickling too.




I have to wonder where these "studies" get their bull**** from. I simply can't believe I have cones where others don't.

you don't all your' doing is moving yuor eye without realising.

I know if I move my eye, I'm not retarded.

yuo wopn;t know as the brain doesn;t record such things, it's like blinking it just happens, of can yuo tell me how many tiomes you've blinked in teh last 5 mins and did you notice yourself blinking.
It's also similar to breathing in that it's not concious during the event.



Although does anyone know why tickling doesn't work?

yes again done on duck qusacks don;t echo it';s yuo brain perciving movement.
you can not be ticlkish by placing your hand on teh persons hand that is ticlking you, that way you know the location of their hand so the 'tickle' is no longer a suprise event.