12 Apr
2018
12 Apr
'18
8 p.m.
See revealing-psychology-playing-card-magic/ <https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/revealing-psychology-playing-card-magic/> It is interesting that results depend on whether one is asked to i"name" a card or "visualize" a card. On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 9:06 PM, James Propp <jamespropp@gmail.com> wrote:
If you ask people to name a random card in a standard deck, what regularities govern their answers?
(Is this something someone has looked at?)
Cf. the observation that when people are asked to pick a number between 1 and 20, the most common answer is 17.
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