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by jasonincanada 1413 days ago
I wonder if this explains how I almost never see the minutes click over on a digital clock. I think of how often I check the time, say maybe 1 second at a time staring at the clock, it should at least every now and then be flicking over to the next minute, but it almost never seems to happen while I'm actually looking at it
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If you normally glance at the time fir half a second, the switchover only happens every 120th time on average, which is infrequent enough that your brain simply doesn’t expect it in that context. Maybe it then just cuts out that “glitch” in the rare cases it happens.