nsfw!!! ;)

edit: Why the **** does this stupid software de-capitalize "NSFW"? Sure, it's a stupid joke, but I know how to write, dammit.

You need a new job. ;) An anthropological question is...does her facial bone structure match her physiology? I believe it does. Yes…I am fairly right brained.

I keep looking at it and I can't even see how it's possible to think the woman is moving anything but counterclockwise.

I feel the same way, but I was next to a person who said otherwise. Weird.

reminds me...
 

Reminds me of a class long argument with a teacher in high school about which way the earth rotates, CW, or CCW. He couldn't grasp that it depends on your point of view. (From the top, CW; from the bottom, CCW)

Ouch.

Bingo. I don't even know which one we're defining.

The woman is being viewed from the side. CW and CCW look the same from any angle.

Think about looking from the absolute top or the absolute bottom.

Or thread a screw into a hole from the top. And then the bottom.

Difference in brain dominance Doc...no surprise you are left brained given your profession. What is surprising though is I only see the lady spinning CW which means right brain dominance...which belies the linear thinking of many engineers but I am a bit outside the norm in terms of creativity. Also...the following NY times article castes major aspersion on which way the lady spins relative to profession which generally but not always correlates brain dominance to specific professions. If you believe the left brain correlation to specific vocations per the stereotype, this small sample proves the opposite:

http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.co...ncer-teach-us/

First she's going CW and the CCW. I'm one of those people who has a dominant left eye, writes right-handed, leads with their left leg. I'm not really in either side for very long....

Maybe it's because it's a human figure, and even if the image were rotated 180 degrees and it looked like the woman was rotating clockwise, I'd still say CCW because of the way the woman is oriented. Kinda similar to CT scans, where the patien's left is on the right side of the image.

If those that responded can't even understand CW versus CCW as viewed from the dancer's perspective, then they fall into the Pcad school of deduction and therefore are disqualified.

Some people can will themselves to see it in either direction like you do. That shows more of a balance of hemispheres.

She can't be spinning either way viewed from the "side". Your brain chooses to look at her from the top, or the bottom (in a 3D sort of way) to determine if she is going CW or CCW.

Spin a top on a glass table. From above, if it is spinning CW, it will be spinning CCW when looked at from the bottom, underneath the table. Same with the earth, imagine a clock at the equator. When looking at it from the North Pole, the with the numbers facing you, it is spinning CW. When you look at it from the South pole (with the numbers facing you), it is spinning CCW. It alll depends on your vantage point.

The dancers perspective has nothing to do with it.

You were doing pretty well until you stated the above. CW and CCW "convention" to assess left or right brain is as would be applied from the dancer's perspective. That is the convention and the basis for comparison how you see her spinning...not from underneath the dancer...but from above as the dancer would look down at her feet....a pretty obvious given that seems to escape some.

I actually knew that.

I did not want to seem conceited, and I wanted to see what you would say too. :)

I see nothing in the original statement regarding "dancer's perspective". I simply submit that there is no correct answer.

All I know is that she looks like the type that would wheel her bike through a hotel lobby. That b!tch. :D

I agree. Leave it to a woman who doesn't even exist to start an argument between grown men. I bet she's all into herself and everything...and I'm sure she's sucking her gut in.

Without dissecting this to death...obvious to most and apparently not all...
Agree there is no correct answer when it comes to convention regarding clockwise or counterclockwise rotation but there is an intuitive one and that is the direction of rotation from the eyes of the dancer. Most understand that convention intuitively. As to which way the dancer is rotating independent of convention chosen to define direction of rotation, there is no correct answer there because of course each processes the dancer's rotation based upon brain hemisphere dominance.

All I know is I would try to draft her. :D

'The eyes of the dancer'. The eyes of the dancer are perpendicular to the axis of rotation, so I'm not sure how that defines CCW vs. CW.







And I demand we continue talking about it.

i don't believe the whole CW/CCW left/right brain thing. sounds like pop psychology to me.

discuss.

Scary. Are you the guy who strips out his pedals tightening them when you should be loosening? :twitchy: