Are You Detective Material? Practice Your Visual Intelligence | Amy Herman

Are you detective material? This visual intelligence test will make you think twice about accuracy and just how much details matter.
Amy Herman's latest book is "Visual Intelligence: Sharpen Your Perception, Change Your Life" (https://goo.gl/tWcgcg).

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Transcript - his is an interesting painting and I want you to just take a look at it for a few seconds before we talk about it. I've looked at this painting a thousand times. I use it in my classes, I've seen it in art museums when it's been on view and there is so many subtleties. But one of the assumptions that I made, not as an art historian but just a viewer of art is that what I was looking at on the plate was a piece of meat like a piece of ham with and eye in the center. And when I first showed it at one of my classes I said okay who's going to tell me what they see and someone raised his hand and said that's a big old pancake on the plate. And I would have never considered that it was a pancake. Is it a material distinction? Maybe, maybe not. But he was so sure that it was a pancake and I was so sure that it was a piece of meat, while it might seem like a really subtle distinction it's not if you think about something like eyewitness testimony. Well, he was wearing a red sweater. No, he was wearing a blue sweater. That's a big difference. Read Full Transcript Here: https://goo.gl/CTKSV0.