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Vivid or Calm?

Autonomistic

I've noticed a few discussions recently which mention colours. Colours in general are very important to me. I've seen it mentioned that autistic people have a preference for blues and greens and I would agree with that personally. I cannot imagine a world where everything were shades of grey or beige Neutral face

This piqued my curiosity about preferences in relation to the 'Vivid' or 'Calm' colour choices we are provided with on this website. 

My preference is most definitely vivid. I find the calm option harder to see, to the extent that it feels as if it is hurting my eyes if I try. Which one do you opt for?

Clicking the button to switch quickly between vivid and calm induces a physical nausea sensation in me. Does anyone else experience this?

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  • in reply to Sporadic Sparkly
    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.

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