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And The Winner Is....
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Posted On: November 09 2006
By: Brittney Bush
Photo © tremo
So, yesterday I posted a little experiment about photo preferences -- specifically, people's preferences between the original and flipped version of a portrait. I've tallied the results, and am ready to announce my ASTOUNDING conclusions to the general public.
Drum roll, please.
The winner is:
The original!
I preferred the flipped.
The winner is:
The flipped!
I also preferred the flipped.
It seems that eye of wally was onto something with his statement that women tend to prefer flipped versions of their photos. However, it was interesting to see the public's opinion split. As I prefer the me that I tend to see, I expected others to prefer the original versions in both cases: the way flickr is used to "seeing" me.
A couple of commenters were kind enough to venture theories on the general preferencies. Dougr made an interesting observation:
[I]n both #1 and #2, most people prefer the image in which you are *looking toward* the viewer's right regardless of which side of the diptych on which that image appears.
Photograham put his brain forward, too:
My general impression of answers, without checking, is that a lot of people have switched sides. If true it might be more to do with a preference for seeing the left or right side of a face, rather than the mirror image.
Feel free to draw your own conclusions - and to let me know about them. Me? I'm just happy anybody likes me at all!
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