The 60,000 Times Faster Claim Gets Dialed Back to 1982

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The 60,000 Times Faster Claim Gets Dialed Back to 1982
Alan Levine, CogDogBlog, 2015/04/09

Have you heard this? "We can process visuals 60,000 times faster than text?" In my own mind I would question it right away because of its overt employment of a computer metaphor to talk about cognition, which to me is prima facie questionable. More...