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by layer8 651 days ago
That’s like asking which way a Necker cube is oriented. It’s both and neither. For blue and green, there’s a range of shades for which that ambiguity is true and you can “flip” it in your mind.

I would actually find it more practical to determine the thresholds on both sides where I find it to become ambiguous.
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RussianCow 651 days ago
> I would actually find it more practical to determine the thresholds on both sides where I find it to become ambiguous.

Isn't that the point of this exercise?

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jsnell 651 days ago
Not as far as I can tell. The phrasing of the question test does not acknowledge such ambiguity to start with, and by forcing them to answer one way or the other the test does not allow the users to signal perceived ambiguity even if they wanted to.

So how could the point of this exercise possibly be to find the range of ambiguity?

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layer8 651 days ago
No, it assumes there's a singular point where it is ambiguous, whereas I'm saying it's a range within which it's ambiguous.
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