The Argyle Sweater by Scott Hilburn for October 22, 2016

The “find the L”, “find the N” (among M’s), and similar challenges reveal the interesting result that people are so different. Most, or many, most people find them very quickly. The rest think they are interesting challenges to post. This observation may be skewed by the likely fact that people who can’t see it don’t post their failure, thinking it means there’s something wrong with them, which of course there it. .Even scientists fall prey to the difference. When they tried to demonstrate that it was easier to spot the L when the L was red, they compared to an array with an L the same black as the (in this case) T’s. People consistently found the black L faster. It was on the left of the array where people begin scanning, but the researchers apparently didn’t find it so easily. Font makes a difference, too. It’s harder to find an N among M’s in a serif font.