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Gestalt psychologists' 1930s experiments established that all observers make figure-ground saliency judgments in more or less the same way

Foundational empirical support for the principle that subjective perceptual reports can be objective and shared

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Different human observers report very similar results when using the wholeness-feeling test, and their observations converge
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Empirical basis for the objectivity of the second method: inter-observer agreement validates that the wholeness measure tracks something real
The gestalt psychologists' 'goodness of figure' dependent on convexity, differentiation, and boundaries are precursors of the fifteen properties of living structure
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Alexander links his fifteen properties framework to prior empirical gestalt research, grounding it in established science

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