Re: Health and safety gone maddddd!
"I'm pretty sure there is some scientific basis for this - human brains process pattern recognition faster than reading."
I suspect it goes to handedness. Are you by chance left-handed? If so, then you're likely right-brained, and the right-brained tend to interpret, for lack of a better term, aesthetics or analogue information better. You can easily see an analogue watch showing ten to six, for example.
I'm right-handed and left-brained. Left-brains tend to work better with logic and discrete information. Me? I look at a speedometer and sometimes get the pips mixed up, wondering whether it's 42 or 47, where if I read a digital readout, it locks in place for me PDQ. Same for the watch. The numbers make more sense for me than the dial.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
