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posted by [identity profile] darwiniacat.livejournal.com at 01:53am on 2007-06-09
"and it's well documented that black objects feel heavier than light-coloured objects of the same mass (to sighted humans)"

Really?
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posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 07:39pm on 2007-06-09
Well okay, maybe not "well documented", but documented in at least one study I've read about. Yah, they did the experiment using pairs of boxes of equal volume and mass, and folks consistently judged the black box heavier than the white one when lifting them.
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