Vivid or Calm?

Ty Tennant wants to be the Doctor too, so then they'd have three generations. XD 

Yes it’s a whole dynasty! And a (fictionally ) incestuous one given that Georgia played the Doctor’s daughter on screen too! 

The Fifth Doctor being Peter Davison, whose daughter (Georgia) is married to David Tennant (AKA the Tenth Doctor). 

It has to be said the Fifth Doctor did look rather dapper (in my opinion) in his signature cricket attire.

Sporadic Sparkly said:

if I'm watching TV when it's dark, I cannot stand to have any lights on in my lounge.

I'm the opposite, because the screen can vary too much in brightness. My Dad was showing us some fireworks and put the lights off, that was fine, but the youtube channel had chosen a bright white transition which made me flinch every time and I had to look away! Not a fan of bright light right in my eyes or if they are adjusted to the dark, like undipped headlights.

Shardovan said:

Who does that?!

Me! I might sometimes prefer a dimmer side light but we moved that to a different room. I don't mind the main light being on, but can't cope with no light but the screen. Also I sometimes crochet in the ad breaks or if the thing is mostly talking.

Um...although this might just be a perception issue, I've just tried the Calm setting and can hardly see any difference between Calm and Vivid.

Thank goodness! 

Don't worry you're not a weirdo   I'm as genuinely shocked as you that I'm not in the minority.

I wish there was a laugh reaction for that kind of gold

A User's Guide to Screen Colours ~

Vivid: the Melts-Your-Eyeballs option.

Calm: the Melts-Your-Eyeballs-Gradually option.

Same! I can’t watch gogglebox even because it drives me insane that they keep the big light on. Who does that?! 

a very low wattage soft lamp is ok 

You would certainly have sensory overload then if you were sat in front of my PC Shardovan. I have an LED strip light that clips onto the top of my monitor, with adjustable settings. The light is as bright as it can possibly be.

On the flip side of the coin, if I'm watching TV when it's dark, I cannot stand to have any lights on in my lounge.

We can't read your posts because our eyes are knackered.

Genuinely shocked that I’m the first non-vivid person. I’d have sworn we’d mostly be in the ‘nothing too bright’ range. Now I feel like a weirdo! But only a bit. The option wouldn’t exist just for me after all 

i always keep night light on in my PC as well, and it kicks in on my phone at 9 pm 

Check out my avatar for the ultimate beige and red combo. The Fifth Doctor’s signature look, never bettered! 

P.s. your hypothetical grey/beige world sounds nice to me. Restful. It’s not that i wouldn’t miss the other colours after a while but what an eye bath that would be! 

Calm for me, every time. I wondered at first who on earth would choose vivid but you’ve answered that very well! The site designers know their stuff. Makes sense that over and under stimulation would be present across the community 

Oh heck! Do not get me started on TV advertising or web advertising. 

As for your final paragraph, you may well be right. 

Sporadic Sparkly said:

Going slightly off on a tangent, but I'm aware that when I'm looking at online shopping sites, items tend to be displayed by default in terms of popularity.

Yeah there's something about that too "herd mentality" is a thing. I think "most popular" is actually a sales trick via a similar mechanism as:

"Researchers at Leeds University performed a group experiment in which volunteers were told to randomly walk around a large hall without talking to each other. A select few were then given more detailed instructions on where to walk. The scientists discovered that people end up blindly following one or two instructed people who appear to know where they are going. The results of this experiment showed that it only takes 5% of confident looking and instructed people to influence the direction of the other 95% of people in the crowd, and the 200 volunteers did this without even realizing it.^[5][6]

Researchers from Hebrew University, NYU, and MIT explored herd mentality in online spaces, specifically in the context of "digitized, aggregated opinions."^[7] Online comments were given an initial positive or negative vote (up or down) on an undisclosed website over five months.^[8] The control group comments were left alone.

The researchers found that "the first person reading the comment was 32% more likely to upvote it if it had been already given a fake positive score."^[8] Over the five months, comments artificially rated positively showed a 25% higher average score than the control group, with the initial negative vote ending up with no statistical significance in comparison to the control group.^[7] The researchers found that "prior ratings created significant bias in individual rating behavior, and positive and negative social influences created asymmetric herding effects."^[7]"

^{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd_mentality
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/09/science/internet-study-finds-the-persuasive-power-of-like.html}

Sporadic Sparkly said:

If there's an option to change the setting, I'll always opt for items to be displayed from least expensive to most expensive.

When in supermarkets, I'll always look at the cost per 100g (for example), as they can sometimes work out cheaper than some of the eye-catching supermarket offers.

Same in both instances! I also do that. Also I'm impervious to TV adverts most of the time. And I've never felt the need to click on a web ad despite the thousands of trackers supposedly building a profile of the junk I'm most likely to be interested in.

I wonder if being autistic helps shield us from things like peer pressure into behaviour which doesn't serve our needs. Which would certainly lend to the evolutionary theory of autism.

Interesting articles Sam. Am on the fence as to whether I tend to be lured by middle options. What I do know is that I tend to take my time and weigh up the options available. If I had to pick a number between 1 and 12, I know that I would most likely go for 3 or 9. 

Going slightly off on a tangent, but I'm aware that when I'm looking at online shopping sites, items tend to be displayed by default in terms of popularity. If there's an option to change the setting, I'll always opt for items to be displayed from least expensive to most expensive.

When in supermarkets, I'll always look at the cost per 100g (for example), as they can sometimes work out cheaper than some of the eye-catching supermarket offers.