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From: shf@well.UUCP (Stuart H. Ferguson)
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Subject: Re: What to know & universal icons
Keywords: Universal Icon
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Date: 31 Aug 89 04:37:37 GMT
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+-- lubofsky@aero.UUCP (Nick Lubofsky) writes:
| Wouldn't all people recognize this?
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|       / \

I don't know how accurate this is, but I heard once that "primative"
tribal people who had never encountered photgraphs before were not able
to see the image it depicted.  They saw it as a surface with colored
patches on it.  They certainly knew how to deal with objects, but not
with pictures of objects.  They had to learn how to interpret the
representation.

Anyone know if this kind of thing really happened, or if it's just one
of those stories?
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		Stuart Ferguson		(shf@well.UUCP)
		Action by HAVOC		(ferguson@metaphor.com)