How on earth do they hold the food still when cutting it?
With the use of a fork, like we do. After cutting, the knife is put down, and fork transferred to dominant hand - most odd.

How on earth do they hold the food still when cutting it?
We don't have dogs.
In my early life licking the plate was a punishable crime, however when I met Missus Sunray there was also a 17 year old Miss Sunray in tow, she and her boyfriend fairly quickly taught me the art of turning the plate against the tongue rather than dragging the tongue across the plate![]()
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As I wrote before, that's as expected - simply 'parallax'.To put it another way: with one eye I see this <image> with the other I see this <image.
That's what I don't understand. It sounds as if your brain is not dealing with 'binocular vision' as it should.and both together I see this albeit the text will appear across the 2 pencils
I don't think I've ever really done that, but I was taught that is what I should do - since if one clears a plate, it suggests that one was probably not given enough food, hence 'rude'!I habitually, never clear a plate, there is always some food left - which the dog used to get.
I don't think I've ever really done that, but I was taught that is what I should do - since if one clears a plate, it suggests that one was probably not given enough food, hence 'rude'!
Quite. One often can't win. I remember some families in which if the children did not finish their food, what they had left uneaten (and only that) would be served up as their next mealExactly what I was sometimes taught. At other times, I would be ridiculed as ungrateful for leaving anything.
This afternoon we had a lovely social gathering in a neighbours garden, the sight of 10 people of 70 to 84 years holding their hand up with one finger raised must have been comical...It's not 'my test'. It's the standard test of eye dominance that I was first taught over 50 years ago and which remains one of the standard tests today. As for 'what it is supposed to achieve', I thought I had adequately explained and illustrated that way back in post #24 on page 2. However, maybe the more detailed diagram below will help you to understand...
As I explained, when, with both eyes open one concentrates/focusses on an object, one's dominant eye looks directly towards it ('perpendicular' to one's face), whilst the non-dominant one rotates towards the dominant one in order to also look at that object. Hence, if one concentrates/focusses on a distant object and aligns a finger (held at arm's length) with that distant object, the situation is per the left-hand bit of diagram below, and one hence obviously sees the finger and distant object to be aligned (since that iis how one has positioned one's finger!).
If, without moving one's head or finger, one closes one's non-dominant eye, nothing actually changes. The dominant eye is still looking directly forwards at both the finger and distant object, which are therefore still seen as aligned - as in middle bit of diagram.
However, if (again without moving head or finger) one closes one's dominant eye, then the non-dominant one, looking a little 'sideways' towards the dominant side, sees finger and distant objects at different angles, hence being seen as laterally separated, not 'aligned'.
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I'm more-or-less in the middle of that age range, so that group should certainly be 'representative' of me!This afternoon we had a lovely social gathering in a neighbours garden, the sight of 10 people of 70 to 84 years holding their hand up with one finger raised must have been comical...
I must be going mad, because I really don't get it ...I asked them to focus on someone elses nose which would have been 6-8 feet away and hold that focus then raise one finger into the view in front of the others nose then report what they saw. All but one simply announced seeing 2 fingers then 2 faces when asked to focus on their finger.
That might, of course, be one issue. If they really are seeing two fingers, then they might not be lining up the right one for the dominance test to work properly. Indeed, depending upon the reason for them seeing two fingers, it could be that lining up neither of the fingers would result in the test working properly.Then asked all the others, including reading the instructions directly your post and from one of the on-line tests, and not a single one could come up with anything near the sort of result expected on here, some asked which finger to line up with.
What you seem to have been observing is simply all wrong. The vast majority of people DO have a dominant eye, just as the vast majority have a dominant hand etc.So all but the one eyed guy don't have a dominant eye, or it it the joke or BS I thought it was when first mooted?
I definitely get the dominant eye thing when swapping between L closed and R closed, and with one closed I don't get the "double vision".
Thank goodness for that ... at least I'm not going totally madI definitely get the dominant eye thing when swapping between L closed and R closed
This 'double vision' /'duplicated objects' thing must be related to the fact that there are two eyes, so it certainly wouldn't/couldn't happen with only one eye open., and with one closed I don't get the "double vision".
As will be apparent from other things I've written, I remain mystified.With both eyes open I do, with or without glasses.
It can be, but it can also be due to a problem in the brain resulting in it not combining the two (slightly different) images from the two eyes correctly.Double vision, is the result of both eyes, not aiming at the same object/the correct angle.
Okay but how is the brain supposed to interpret what it sees as 2 pencils?It can be, but it can also be due to a problem in the brain resulting in it not combining the two (slightly different) images from the two eyes correctly.
Okay but how is the brain supposed to interpret what it sees as 2 pencils?
If the 2 pencils apparent were equally spaced each side of the nose should the brain do the mix and place then in the centre and obscure the nose?
If so if the 2 pencils really are 2 actual physical pencils should it interpret that as one?
It's not supposed to see one pencil as two pencils and, as far as I am concerned doesn't do that.Okay but how is the brain supposed to interpret what it sees as 2 pencils?
As I've said, one should not perceive two apparent pencils, so I can't really answer that.If the 2 pencils apparent were equally spaced each side of the nose should the brain do the mix and place then in the centre and obscure the nose?
That's a silly suggestion. We're talking about images of actual physical objects. If there are 1, 2, 20 or 200 physical pencils, what is perceived should be 1, 2, 20 or 200 pencils respectivelyIf so if the 2 pencils really are 2 actual physical pencils should it interpret that as one?
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