Monday, May 9, 2011

eye on ψ

(ψ = psi = psychology symbol)

(See what I did up there in the blog title? It rhymes. I'm hilarious.)

(Sorry about that... moving on.)

As I previously mentioned, I spent Saturday at a conference. Though a small, state conference with anyone from undergraduates to graduate students to faculty presenting, it was - overall - a good meeting.

Perhaps one of the most interesting things I learned is that we all have a dominant eye. Akin to having a dominant hand. Though that doesn't mean there's going to be any relation between hand-dominance and eye-dominance. However, most people are right-handed and most people are right-eyed, which means you're probabilistically likely to have the 2 match if you are right-handed.

So, you now want to know which one you are, right?

1. Extend your hands forward and place your hands together to make a small triangle between your thumbs and the first knuckle.

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2. With both eyes open, center the triangle around the dot below. Alternatively, you can focus the triangle around any focal point in the room (e.g., a doorknob).








3a. Close your left eye - If the circle stays in view, you are right-eye dominant. If you can no longer see the circle, you are left-eye dominant.

OR 

3b. Close your right eye - If the circle stays in view, you are left-eye dominant. If you can no longer see the circle, you are right-eye dominant.

OR

3c. Frantically go back and forth between a. and b., amazed that there is a difference.

I'm left-eye dominant (but right-handed). What about you?
  

5 comments:

  1. I'm right-eye dominant, no question, no doubt, no surprise. Shucks!

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  2. I am right-eye dominant but left handed. :)

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  3. What if it doesn't work? My eyes are broken!

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  4. I think I'm right-eyed dominant. Admittedly I totally fell into the 3c category for WAY too long. What I did notice is that I am amble to trick my eyes into being left-eye dominant for a while.

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  5. hmm.. Dot was in view for both eyes. Ambidextrous eyes? User error?

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