{"id":11859,"date":"2017-06-05T23:03:14","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T03:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/?p=11859"},"modified":"2021-06-21T08:18:05","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T12:18:05","slug":"chasing-down-the-research-behind-the-60000x-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/2017\/06\/05\/chasing-down-the-research-behind-the-60000x-claim\/","title":{"rendered":"Chasing Down the Research Behind the 60000x Claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11860\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/60000X_600.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11860\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11860\" src=\"http:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/60000X_600.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11860\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;60000 Times Faster? Who Says That&#8217;s True?&#8221; animated GIF by @aforgrave<\/p><\/div>\n<p>So there is a claim that has been floating around since the 80s that &#8220;we process visual images 60000 times faster than text.&#8221; The claim has appeared in numerous powerpoints and keynotes, but it seems to have very little concrete research to support it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alan Levine<\/strong>\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/cogdog\/\">@cogdog<\/a>) has written numerous posts on the topic, and has even offered up USD$60 for evidence of the original source behind the claim &#8212; now doubled to USD$120 to encourage someone at the upcoming @nmcorg conference to take a little cross-town walk in support of a little detective work. Check out the full story with <a href=\"http:\/\/cogdogblog.com\/tag\/60000x\/\">this series of posts on Alan&#8217;s blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So there is a claim that has been floating around since the 80s that &#8220;we process visual images 60000&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Chasing Down the Research Behind the 60000x Claim","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[235,30,15,1,49],"tags":[1160,1158,131,132,1078,1159],"class_list":["post-11859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-animated-gif-ds106assignments","category-commentary","category-ds106","category-uncat","category-thedailycreate","tag-60000-times-faster","tag-60000x","tag-cogdog","tag-alan-levine","tag-ds106","tag-tdc1974"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/60000X_600.gif","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2UvWF-35h","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11861,"href":"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11859\/revisions\/11861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}