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Originally Posted by ApK
I tried to watch some of the video presentation of that course by Novella.
Early on, he presented Bev Doolittle's painting "Pintos" as an example of an "ambiguous stimuli" optical illusion, like the "young/old woman" illusion.
The Pinto paining is NOT an optical illusion, and there is nothing in it that is designed to be ambiguous. It is a straight-up painting of five pintos on a similar looking background. There is nothing that can be interpreted two ways, there is simply some natural camouflage that blends in well, meaning you may have to count horse heads or legs to be sure you didn't miss one.
I could not watch the rest of the material because I decided I could not trust him.
Was I too hasty?
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If he's the same guy I'm thinking of in the Skeptic's guide podcast, I found myself disagreeing with some of his assertions in the podcast. Like most people, he has a world view and tends to be a lot more skeptical about things that disagree with his world view than agree with his world view.