Tuesday, August 10, 2004

Flaws Discovered In BBC Science/Open University Experiment about how Introverts and Extroverts see the World

The initial hypothesis of the test is that extraverts will see the cube flip more times when asked than introverts, and introverts will see it flip more when asked to just passively view it than extraverts.

An ongoing, online experiment created by Dr. Peter Naish of the Open University, in conjuction with BBC Science, and hosted at OPEN UNIVERSITY has been cited as being flawed with "worthless results" by researcher and conceptual theorist, Marshall Barnes.

Marshall, who has just completed work on a new book on his unified theory of geometry, relativity, quantum mechanics and cosmology called, "the 4th D hypothesis", discovered the Naish experiment after researching the nature of the Necker cube, the wire frame cube drawing that allows sight of all 6 sides. When viewed closely, the cube is known to seemingly "flip" perspectives.

Naish uses the Necker cube in his experimental survey to support the idea that the way people view the world can be determined by the way they view illusions. The initial hypothesis of the test is that extraverts will see the cube flip more times when asked than introverts, and introverts will see it flip more when asked to just passively view it than extraverts. According to the results online so far, this doesn't seem to be the case. Marshall claims to know why.

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