RE: st: Think graphically, think logarithmically

[David Kantor <kantor.d@att.net>]

> David Kantor wrote:
> >>It has some resemblance to that iconic picture that appeared as a New
> Yorker cover -- with 9th and 10th Avenue in the foreground, then the
> Hudson River, then the rest of the US, then the Pacific Ocean and
> Japan off in the distance.<<

And Jay responded:
> Yes, that's because, grossly speaking, human perceptual systems are 
> logarithmic. There's a classic study by Roger Shepard (inventor of 
> nonmetric multidimensional scaling) that shows this. [...]

Yes, the phenomenon is called Fechner's Law or the Fechner-Weber Law.

--D

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