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Most educated people do not see the wholeness of the world around them; words and learning distort perception.

Generalisation from the Radcliffe experiment, linking education to loss of holistic perception.

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Findings (1)

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80% of Radcliffe students grouped black-and-white patterns by left-right reading, not by overall wholeness.
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Experimental result showing that highly educated adults tend to ignore the wholeness of simple patterns.

probe (1)

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High-speed holistic search probe: seeing the whole of an array
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The reader is invited to try the unfocused one-second search exercise to experience holistic perception directly.

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