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The Basic Laws Of Human Stupidity
 

[url]http://wwwcsif.cs.ucdavis.edu/~leeey/stupidity/basic.htm[/url]

[QUOTE=retina;264224][url]http://wwwcsif.cs.ucdavis.edu/~leeey/stupidity/basic.htm[/url][/QUOTE]

Illustrated clearly here:

We know art when we see it, from an early age
 

[url]http://bodyodd.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/06/21/6912018-tiny-art-critics-babies-pick-picasso-study-finds[/url]

[url]http://psycnet.apa.org/psycinfo/2011-11055-001/[/url]

[QUOTE=cheesehead;264442][url]http://bodyodd.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/06/21/6912018-tiny-art-critics-babies-pick-picasso-study-finds[/url]

[url]http://psycnet.apa.org/psycinfo/2011-11055-001/[/url][/QUOTE]

There's a different explanation, IMO: Picasso is different enough to be interesting, Monet is close to something that has been seen before...it will take awhile for impressionism to get interesting.

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[QUOTE=Christenson;264452]There's a different explanation, IMO: Picasso is different enough to be interesting, Monet is close to something that has been seen before...it will take awhile for impressionism to get interesting.[/QUOTE]How is your version significantly different from their "Results suggest that infants discriminate and categorize different paintings but that they display a spontaneous preference for paintings by Picasso"? Infants are known to discriminate on the basis of familiarity.

[url]http://www.buzzfeed.com/fjelstud/the-100-longest-entries-on-wikipedia[/url]

[QUOTE=cheesehead;264524]How is your version significantly different from their "Results suggest that infants discriminate and categorize different paintings but that they display a spontaneous preference for paintings by Picasso"? Infants are known to discriminate on the basis of familiarity.[/QUOTE]
It's not...it's that I'm suggesting a more general underlying mechanism for the result, which the researchers (or maybe the reporters garbling the results) did not seem to do.

I think it is helpful to consider why adults appreciate both Monet
and Picasso, but for quite different reasons.
I'm sure the same sort of thing applies to music.

David

[QUOTE=davieddy;264611]I think it is helpful to consider why adults appreciate both Monet
and Picasso, but for quite different reasons.
I'm sure the same sort of thing applies to music.

David[/QUOTE]

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Sorry.

Did you see Fake or Fortune on iPlayer?