Re: [Phys-l] Rude?

[Brian Whatcott <betwys1@sbcglobal.net>]

At 04:39 PM 1/21/2008, bc, you wrote:
[BB]
> "Frankly, I have found the responses on this  issue to be pretty rude!
>  ...I was taken aback a bit."
[bc]
> This has come up before WRT people who hesitate to post because
> of their fear of being pilloried. ...
[BLM]
> Ain't rocket science Jack - just search ...."

For some reason, I remember some undergraduate efforts with a 
tachistoscope. This is an instrument for presenting briefly, a 
selected image to either or both eyes. An 'ordinary' image needed a 
rather brief exposure in order to achieve conscious recognition.  An 
emotionally charged image, by contrast, sometimes needed a much 
longer presentation time in order to be recognized.   This 
differential has a name - something like "perceptual barrier".

It appears to be the case that we all have more difficulty in finding items
 which are in some sense "unwelcome".
[By the way, I have noticed several of the bc contributions of late, 
have shown the effects of reformatting to  book style compositing: 
i.e wall to wall text, overriding quotation indicators like >>> and 
adding curious effects like this snippet -
(cliché warning)
      - which to my reader presents as fifteen characters within 
parentheses. ]


Brian Whatcott    Altus OK    Eureka!