Re: Logical?
| From: | Maarten van Beek <dungeonmaster@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, June 12, 2002, 6:36 |
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> Van: John Cowan
> Onderwerp: Re: Logical?
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> You betcha. Kay and Kempton established that English-speakers
> who are asked "Which is more like color chip A, color chip B or
> color chip C?" consistently get the answer wrong because of
> Whorfian lock-in.
I am interested what objective criteria were used to say that e.g. color C
more closely resembles color A than color B does. There are several ways to
do this, and they giver different answers. Did they compare wavelengths? Did
they consider the biophysical aspects of the human eye in this
determination? Did they use linear or logarithmic scaling, as the eye
perceives light intensity logarithmically?
Imho, it is not so easy to set objective criteria as to the relation between
various colors.
Maarten
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