From Edward Norris
According to your report, Johannes Zanker “asked five people to distinguish
perfect circles from minutely stretched ellipsoids, and squares from
`near-square’ rectangles” and concluded “people’s brains judge spatial
relationships best when they see whole curved shapes”
(16 October, p 27).
Only five subjects in a scientific study? I trust this is a typographical
error and that he asked more than five people. Otherwise you might as well
publish my findings that humans don’t like celery, because I know 11 people who
do not.
Oxford
