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Your car looks like you
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According to new research, your face bears a striking resemblance to the radiator grille and headlights of your car. The fact that people tend to see faces in inanimate objects, has long been known. And a study conducted a few years ago, proved that even a person, we assign the vehicles based on their front profile.
More recently, scientists from the University of Vienna have found that it is the similarity of the car with its owner is the factor that influences his decision to buy this particular car. Researchers showed 160 pictures of the participants of the experiment front of 40 cars with pictures of the sixth potential owners of each machine. Participants were asked to assign a rating to each potential owner, from 1 to 6. 1 means the most likely owner, number 6 - the least likely of the owner. The researchers picked for the experiment only those car owners who bought the car himself personally, but have not received them as a gift or inheritance.
It turned out that the best chance to guess the owner of the car the participants of the experiment appear only when they are considering before machines. The probability of correct response in this case was 21%. Once the same study was carried out with photographs, on which the vehicle was photographed from the side or rear, the participants are much less likely guessed car owners. This meant that their answers were not based on gender differences, or a variety of prejudices. To go further, the researchers used the same experimental design in order to find out whether people associate the car with the dog owner. This is not as crazy as it sounds: Japanese researchers have shown that dogs and their owners, tend to be very similar to each other. And of course, in the new study, the majority of participants could identify the right car and the right owner. It should be noted that the experiment only allowed pedigree dogs and mutts are not.
via factroom.ru
According to new research, your face bears a striking resemblance to the radiator grille and headlights of your car. The fact that people tend to see faces in inanimate objects, has long been known. And a study conducted a few years ago, proved that even a person, we assign the vehicles based on their front profile.
More recently, scientists from the University of Vienna have found that it is the similarity of the car with its owner is the factor that influences his decision to buy this particular car. Researchers showed 160 pictures of the participants of the experiment front of 40 cars with pictures of the sixth potential owners of each machine. Participants were asked to assign a rating to each potential owner, from 1 to 6. 1 means the most likely owner, number 6 - the least likely of the owner. The researchers picked for the experiment only those car owners who bought the car himself personally, but have not received them as a gift or inheritance.
It turned out that the best chance to guess the owner of the car the participants of the experiment appear only when they are considering before machines. The probability of correct response in this case was 21%. Once the same study was carried out with photographs, on which the vehicle was photographed from the side or rear, the participants are much less likely guessed car owners. This meant that their answers were not based on gender differences, or a variety of prejudices. To go further, the researchers used the same experimental design in order to find out whether people associate the car with the dog owner. This is not as crazy as it sounds: Japanese researchers have shown that dogs and their owners, tend to be very similar to each other. And of course, in the new study, the majority of participants could identify the right car and the right owner. It should be noted that the experiment only allowed pedigree dogs and mutts are not.
via factroom.ru