The Dress

[Johnnypenso]

Wrong, it means you can't hear higher frequency sounds.

Weirdly Mrs. Ten can hear "Yarry", and I played it to her blind (if that's the right word) before she even knew why I was asking her. Her hearing's a bit odd having spent her life as an orchestral low-string player.

Or it means the media you are listen to it through can't play higher frequency sounds.

 

[TenEightyOne]

Or it means the media you are listen to it through can't play higher frequency sounds.

Surely that's how people are hearing the sample? If the device you're listening to won't reproduce the frequencies then you won't be able to hear them.

 

[CinnamonOD]

I can hear both at the same time

Where's my prize?

 

[LMSCorvetteGT2]

I can hear both at the same time

Where's my prize?

Down this dark unassuming alley

 

[nobuffalo]

First listen on a tablet and all I could hear was Laurel. I just tried with some headphones and the first couple times it played I could hear both but Yanny quickly faded away and all I can hear now is Laurel.

 

[Blitz24]

I heard an audio Rorschach test.

 

[Saidur_Ali]

All I hear is Laurel very clearly every time... is that right or wrong?

That's the only word I hear too. It's right as that is the word being said.

 

[Wolfe]

Or it means the media you are listen to it through can't play higher frequency sounds.

It is definitely confounded by what device it's on, which was also true of the dress, and that is being overlooked again.

I only heard "yanny" the very first time because when I first clicked on it my laptop's volume was low. The low/high frequency comparison reveals how "yanny" is a distortion that I imagine could ring clearly out of a phone's tinny dust-choked speaker.

I can hear higher-frequency sounds -- by coincidence, I noticed yesterday that my laptop makes a faint high-pitched whine when I touch the capacitive touchpad, but only when it's plugged in -- but I hear "Laurel" with this thing's mediocre speakers at a proper volume, and "yanny" is still present but blown into a hiss.

 

[Johnnypenso]

Surely that's how people are hearing the sample? If the device you're listening to won't reproduce the frequencies then you won't be able to hear them.

Yes, my point was it doesn't necessarily mean a person can't hear high frequencies which is what you suggested was the case in your response. It could simply be the device you are listening on can't produce the frequencies.

It is definitely confounded by what device it's on, which was also true of the dress, and that is being overlooked again.

I only heard "yanny" the very first time because when I first clicked on it my laptop's volume was low. The low/high frequency comparison reveals how "yanny" is a distortion that I imagine could ring clearly out of a phone's tinny dust-choked speaker.

I can hear higher-frequency sounds -- by coincidence, I noticed yesterday that my laptop makes a faint high-pitched whine when I touch the capacitive touchpad, but only when it's plugged in -- but I hear "Laurel" with this thing's mediocre speakers at a proper volume, and "yanny" is still present but blown into a hiss.

Same here. I heard one thing the first time I heard it and something completely different the second time I heard it somewhere else.

 

[DesertPenguin]

I'm curious how @Obelisk hears this

 

[Obelisk]

I'm curious how @Obelisk hears this

Nothing because I'm deaf.

I'll give it a listen tonight.

 

[Rallywagon]

Does it really say Yanny? Ive listened to several versions and even some thsihad the low and high freqs separated and even on the "high" freq version all i heard was laurel

 

[FT-1]

It's 2019, so it's time for a new internet debate. This time, it takes its form in asking internet users how it draws an "X":


Personally, my strategy is #7. But some have managed to think outside the box...


I didn't even know there were so many ways to draw an X...

 

[Liquid]

8

I didn't know there were so many freaks who do it differently.

 

[Moglet]

8

I didn't know there were so many freaks who do it differently.

I also draw it like 8.
9 is just wild!

 

[TB]

Seven is clearly superior. I've never even seen any of the others.

 

[Tired Tyres]

Eight. Clearly. Seven is the wrong way round. The rest are just wrong.

 

[UKMikey]

I wonder whether the #8's start their W's and Y's from the top right hand corner as well.

All my straight lined handwritten letters start from the left so #7 for me.

 

[PeterJB]

#7, I'm left-handed

#9 is vile.

 

[ProjectWHaT]

I think I've been doing it like 5 but I can't do it now that I'm thinking about it consciously

 

[TexRex]

7. I texted a lefty friend and he uses 7 as well, which I suppose could be considered comparable to a righty using 8.

9 is just a trolling attempt. Why would you make four lines when you can make two?

 

[Blood Eagle]

7 and left handed.

 

[TenEightyOne]

#7, and I'm kak'anded.

 

[LMSCorvetteGT2]

I wonder whether the #8's start their W's and Y's from the top right hand corner as well.

All my straight lined handwritten letters start from the left so #7 for me.

X is the only letter I can think of that I start from the right then to the left. W and V and M I do from the left to the right.

 

[Liquid]

I just realised that I like 8 because it's a generally clockwise motion that flows easily through my wrist.

2 and 4 are also clockwise but 8 is the only way I have ever done it and never even considered that there may be other ways.

 

[Rallywagon]

8 is by far superior.

 

[Carbon_6]

#7, right-handed.

 

[Sage Ages]

I personally do number 5 but both #5 and #6 seem to be the most natural way. Not sure how you weirdos would do otherwise.

 

[UKMikey]

I'd love to see some poll results. Nobody seems to think anyone should do it any way other than theirs.

 

[DG_Silva]

5 for me, but I'm an odd mixture of ambidexterity.