The problem with anecdotes

I'm curious about that Quintina thing, I'd like to find an example of it but youtube isn't being helpful.

I accidentally discovered that illusion in 6th grade when I wrote a cube animation just like that trying to figure out how some trig functions worked. The way I did it was just a bunch of points moving in an ellipse connected by lines whose radians are staggered by pi/2. If you look at it that way it is just 2 dimensional and you won't see it as a cube moving in only one direction.

the cube switched and i thought it was part of the video, so i went back and oh my god its still going that way. great vid

Maybe people feel that science is inaccessible, that it's all constructed by boffins with fancy technologies that the layman barely knows exists, let alone can do stuff like measure data for global warming. They're data on a page, but an anecdote -happened- to someone. For some reason, the human element overpowers contrary science.

I think it's a problem of a lack of education in the fundamentals of science (the Method, &c.) and statistics.
But more data are needed to confirm.

That cube blows my mind!!

I stared at the cube and it just kept spinning clockwise, then I looked away for a while and it started going the other way when I looked again.

It's so strange when you get that cube to switch directions :)

Bastard! That cube drove me nuts!

Cool video, keep it up.

let's call him Brad

@Whitecatcb I'd assume that was the joke...