Hey guys, I was looking into an interesting psychological phenomena. There are some famous experiments that seem to indicate that people can make consistent judgements about the nature of a thing just by the characteristics of it's name:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouba/kiki_effect
>In 2001, Vilayanur S. Ramachandran and Edward Hubbard repeated Köhler's experiment using the words "kiki" and "bouba" and asked American college undergraduates and Tamil speakers in India "Which of these shapes is bouba and which is kiki?" In both groups, 95% to 98% selected the curvy shape as "bouba" and the jagged one as "kiki", suggesting that the human brain somehow attaches abstract meanings to the shapes and sounds in a consistent way.
This effect is really interesting, newer experiments show some more interesting facts:
>More recent work by Ozturk and colleagues (2013) showed that even 4-month-old infants have the same sound–shape mapping biases as adults and toddlers.
>The effect has also been shown to emerge in other contexts. For example, when words are paired with evaluative meanings (with "bouba" words associated with positive concepts and "kiki" words associated with negative concepts)
Those two words "Bouba" and "Kiki" are not unique, the phenomenon can be triggered by other terms like "takete" and "baluba" and, more importantly for our further discussion, by proper names common to us like "Molly" and "Kate".
For a further discussion on the phenomena per se https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideasthesia.
Now, lets go to the point. Since it seems that we can make far fetched semantic judgements based on the aesthetic qualities of names alone, I decided to test if this is the case for Sneed and Chuck. Given the two characters on the initial scene of the famous Sneed's Feed and Seed segment(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeTw0c6vxO8), who would you guess is the one called Sneed and the one called Chuck?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouba/kiki_effect
>In 2001, Vilayanur S. Ramachandran and Edward Hubbard repeated Köhler's experiment using the words "kiki" and "bouba" and asked American college undergraduates and Tamil speakers in India "Which of these shapes is bouba and which is kiki?" In both groups, 95% to 98% selected the curvy shape as "bouba" and the jagged one as "kiki", suggesting that the human brain somehow attaches abstract meanings to the shapes and sounds in a consistent way.
This effect is really interesting, newer experiments show some more interesting facts:
>More recent work by Ozturk and colleagues (2013) showed that even 4-month-old infants have the same sound–shape mapping biases as adults and toddlers.
>The effect has also been shown to emerge in other contexts. For example, when words are paired with evaluative meanings (with "bouba" words associated with positive concepts and "kiki" words associated with negative concepts)
Those two words "Bouba" and "Kiki" are not unique, the phenomenon can be triggered by other terms like "takete" and "baluba" and, more importantly for our further discussion, by proper names common to us like "Molly" and "Kate".
For a further discussion on the phenomena per se https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideasthesia.
Now, lets go to the point. Since it seems that we can make far fetched semantic judgements based on the aesthetic qualities of names alone, I decided to test if this is the case for Sneed and Chuck. Given the two characters on the initial scene of the famous Sneed's Feed and Seed segment(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeTw0c6vxO8), who would you guess is the one called Sneed and the one called Chuck?
