Blindness Seems to Help Size Estimates

Augusta Chronicle, The › April 01, 2005

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Is a package bigger than a breadbox? Was that hail really the size of baseballs?

A new study says that chances are, when asked to estimate the size of an object using your hands while your eyes are closed, you'll err on the large side - unless you're blind.

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Blindness Seems to Help Size Estimates

Researchers in New Zealand tested the size-estimating abilities of 24 blin...

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