My effort since 2012 to identify a verifiable source for the humans process visual information 60000 times faster than text. It never ends.
Did you realize that we can process visuals 60,000 times faster than text? There is something about that phrase that people just keep slapping it into presentations, blog posts about infographics, newspaper articles, published books about visual literacy. Google finds 195,000 references to it. The problem is that it’s bogus. There is bubkas for anything […]
creative commons licensed ( BY-NC-ND ) flickr photo shared by caddymob It’s time to start issuing citations for pooping on the internet. The sheer irony of what came in via a trackback (still value among the flotilla of spam) to my still un-solved pursuit to find the source, the actual credible source, for the oft […]
In scanning the Thoughtvectors blogs and twitter stream, a lot of students/participants are well on their way starting their Inquiry Projects. But should anyone be in search of one, I have one I started a while ago, that is free for anyone to run with. It is almost a year since last reporting on the […]
If you buy lock, stock, and “no need for pesky things like actual data” fact that we process visual information 60,000 times faster than text, there is nothing to stop one from taking video at 30 frames a second as information we can process 1,800,000 times faster than text. The Huffington Post College edition comes […]
cc licensed ( BY-NC-SA ) flickr photo shared by Ric e Ette I am sure you have across this statement in blog posts, presentations promoting visual communication styles; it often cited as a “fact” (yep, I am using those kind of quotes): Research at 3M Corporation concluded that we process visuals 60000 times faster than […]
I’m trying to be the relentless dog who will not drop the bone. Believe it, you cannot find everything on the web, and in this case, what I find on the web is something repeated so much, that people accept it as truth. I am calling agents of information literacy to help me find the […]
Someone lend me a rope, I have fallen deep into one of those internet rabbit holes. It began as a simple “I’ll look this up in a few minutes” query. I’d seen this quote in at least 2 presentations: “images are processed 60,000 times faster than text” A number like that smells like it comes […]
