Can YOU find the panda?

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Magic!

Out of curiosity, I tried the experiment again. My results are below.

According this study <click>


Apparently:
- In the target present scenario, if the target “pops” out right away, you should get approximately a flat line (I guess regardless of the number of elements on the screen).
- In the target absent scenario, you should theoretically get nearly a flat line as well (since the absence of this the target means it is not there).

Notes:
- Single Feature search involves searching for a color or shape. As an example, looking for a blue triangle amongst red triangles or looking for blue triangle amongst blue squares.
- Conjunction search involves searching for both color and shape. As an example, looking for a blue triangle amongst red triangles and blue squares.

The next question is, how does this relate to finding panda? I have no idea.

It took me definitely more than a minute to find it. It didn't "jump out" at me by any means, and I wondered whether it was a trick, too, like many snowmen making up the image of a panda. Only by systematically scanning row after row, looking for something without a carrot for a nose, did I find it. I wonder if this means I'm not a true aspie after all.

My eyes were immediately drawn to the snowman in the black hat, but once I realized it wasn't the panda, I went line-by-line starting from the bottom. Found it in about 15 seconds.

i suppose he could have put "spoiler alert" or a similar wording by the link.

but he's not flaunting it, true. people could just as easily google or reverse image search the solution.

edit: i see it has already been removed. oh.

Found it in under 5 seconds.

Aspie powers!

Hehe, same here. Yes, my friend was shocked and said he had to find a hint online in order to finally see the panda. Took him a long time.

My friend is a very smart and gifted salesman, who can run circles around me with the complex paperwork and scheduling he has to do all the time. His job would kill me! =0

But he was shocked that my little brother and I found the little panda within 3 seconds. We all have our strengths and weaknesses in life.

It amazes me what sorts of things fascinate NTs. There was that dress a few months ago, and now this. It took me a little bit to find it; I don't have a lot of the positive Aspie traits like finding patterns or being good with computers or having a high IQ.

I don't know what's going on in those people's minds, but the only way I can imagine someone not finding the panda in an hour is if they refuse to scan the rows methodically, which would take them a few minutes at most, and just keep looking haphazardly throughout the image, hoping to stumble upon it.

I'm familiar with many similar, ostensibly self-defeating neurotypical behaviors I can't understand, and I can only make sense of them by thinking in terms of status and popularity---what aspies tend to ignore. Perhaps it is beneath them to devote the mental energy needed to optimize their strategy to the task at hand, regardless of whether they end up spending more energy and time by not doing so.

I looked at it and thought, its like the forest and the trees, but 'cant see the panda for the snowmen, and then I seen the panda.

Happy Christmas Cat, x.

I found it eventually. My first thought (once the image stopped shifting) was: There's a panda here?
Then I started at the left and went through the image. Still saw nothing. Looked some more. The rest may be revealing, please don't read if you wanna find the panda.

I think it took me about half a minute or so.

That's how I knew that it was the panda.

I saw this panda thing on FB and skipped right by it, not understanding why people were posting a picture of a sea of snowmen. Then, finally, I realized that one was supposed to find the panda. Once I realized that, I found it in about 5 seconds.

I did not go line-by-line. When I do word searches, I don't go line-by-line at first, either. At the beginning, I kind of "zoom out" in my viewing and look for discrepancies in the pattern. Then I "zoom in" in those spots and see if there is something important there.

When I do word searches, I "zoom out" and look for groups of letters that could form a word, then "zoom in" on those to see if there is actually a word. I have found words much faster by this more relaxed (to me) method. After I feel I have found all I can by this method, I go back to line-by-line searching.

It was easy to find, it's weird to think that most people can't find it.

^that.

call it an aspie lack of empathy but i simply don't comprehend spending an "hour" looking at the image and not being able to find it. simply can't.