Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!udel!rochester!cornell!batcomputer!theory.TC.Cornell.EDU!finn From: finn@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Lee Samuel Finn) Newsgroups: sci.bio Subject: Re: Signals from electronic devices? Summary: Not likely Message-ID: <1991May19.171144.2071@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> Date: 19 May 91 17:11:44 GMT References: <19377@csli.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu Distribution: na Organization: Cornell Theory Center Lines: 21 Nntp-Posting-Host: theory.tc.cornell.edu In article <19377@csli.Stanford.EDU> cphoenix@csli.Stanford.EDU (Chris Phoenix) writes: >Some background: I used to have a small digital clock (LCD display) >that switched between displaying the time and date every second or >two. I noticed that every time I looked at it, at first glance it was >displaying the date, and from then on switched normally. I even took >it to school and demonstrated this to a few other people. It happened >at least 20 times in a row, and the only time I remember it failing >was when I looked at it twice in a few seconds. I recently remembered >this, and became curious. > Assuming you have not subconciously timed your clock (a possibility you raise), and that there is a definite bias in the observations (and not that you are just preferentially noticing date on the first glance events), then a more likely suggestion is that the time spent in date display mode is greater than the time spent in time display mode. > . . . >-- >Chris Phoenix cphoenix@csli.stanford.edu >#insert #insert #insert