{"id":379,"date":"2007-10-16T22:47:30","date_gmt":"2007-10-16T22:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/?p=379"},"modified":"2007-10-16T22:47:30","modified_gmt":"2007-10-16T22:47:30","slug":"brain_test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/?p=379","title":{"rendered":"Brain test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Which way is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/perthnow\/story\/0,21598,22492511-5005375,00.html?from=mostpop\">this dancer<\/a> spinning: clockwise or anti-clockwise? Your answer supposedly indicates how your brain works, although the article doesn&#8217;t explain the basis for that claim, or even where the picture came from.<br \/>\nMy own results are puzzling. I initially saw the dancer to be spinning clockwise, which puts me in the right-brain category. That&#8217;s just plain wrong; I&#8217;m one of the most stereotypically left-brained people you will ever meet. I tried for several minutes to change the direction of the dancer&#8217;s spin, but couldn&#8217;t do it just by mental effort. Finally I discovered that by looking at the shadows of her feet, I could convince myself that she was spinning anti-clockwise. Now I can easily switch the direction at will. I&#8217;m not sure what any of this means, but it sure is interesting.<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nSource: <a href=\"http:\/\/freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com\/\">Freakonomics<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which way is this dancer spinning: clockwise or anti-clockwise? Your answer supposedly indicates how your brain works.<br \/>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/?p=379\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}