In-Class Task
In a brief comment in the Reply field below, describe our common misconception about mirrors and why it’s so hard to talk ourselves out of the illusion that they flip images.
David Hodges
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Counterintuitivity 
Funny, Corinne, I was just using that technique a couple of minutes ago.
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Mirrors don’t flip left to right, rather front to back. It’s easy to think of it as left to right, but if that was the case they would look odd, as in the Scarlett example.
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I’m glad the Scarlett example made obvious the difference between flipping and reflecting back.
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Our common misconception about mirrors is that it flips horizontally. In reality we are just reading through the image. We are reading through the back of the image in front of the mirror which is why it looks flipped from left to right.
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It’s still hard just to talk about what actually happens and why, isn’t it?
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It is difficult to think of mirrors in this way since it is not as simple as a mirror flipping an image horizontally. We say that a mirror is flipped just because that is the way our mind views and comprehends a mirror image.
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Agreed. Calling it “flipping” is so easy we’re seduced into thinking of it that way.
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When we look at mirrors, we tend to think the image we see is flipped because things are on the opposite side from where they are in real life. It is hard to talk ourselves out of this illusion I think because it is such a common occurrence in everyday life and we never really think much of it, but just to accept it and move on with our day.
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Hence, the mirror is an excellent example of the counterintuitive nature of our perceptions and common knowledge.
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It’s hard to talk ourselves out of believing mirrors flip images mainly because of how it appears logically to the human brain. When we look into the mirror we see the things on our left appear to be on our right and the other way as well so it makes sense that this would be correct although it’s not.
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What’s more surprising is that until we’re forced to look at and explain it, we just shrug off the illusion.
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Mirrors don’t flip side to side, but they flip from front to back. It’s so hard to talk ourselves out of the illusion that they flip images because when we look in the mirror, text on clothing is flipped. This makes us think that the mirror is flipping from left to right.
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Yeah, the text example is the most confounding.
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Mirrors don’t flip images. When we look in a mirror it appears that our right and left sides are reversed. What really happens is the mirror has inverted us front and back.
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We’re used to seeing photographs of ourselves in which the names on our shirts read correctly, but we can’t spin 180 degrees and look at ourselves from the front. The mirror tricks us into thinking that’s what’s happening. It isn’t.
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A conception that we have with mirrors is that it we can see the image or item side by side rather than how our eyes see it horizontally.
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So hard to talk about, isn’t it, C? I’m not sure what side-by-side means in your explanation, but that difficulty in finding the right language is the very problem.
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When we look at our right shoulder it is still our right shoulder in the mirror, but the mirror rather shows a front-to-back type image. This is why words can be flipped when we read them in a mirror.
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That’s an important fact that’s hard to keep in mind. My right shoulder is both on my right and, when I look at the image of myself, still on the right side of that reflection of me. If I were really standing in front of myself, THEN the image of me would be flipped.
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With a mirror, it is showing us our reflection, which instead of flipping our image it is rather front to back we can see this in the Obama example above. This is the major misconception when it comes to mirrors.
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The Obama images are the set that resolves the confusion for me too.
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It is hard to talk ourselves out of the illusion because it is all we know and see
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That says it.
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It is believed that a mirror flips an image left to right. It does not. Instead, a mirror does not flip at all, it appears inverted, front to back. This is because when you look in a mirror and wear something that has writing on it, the words will appear backward. It is like looking down on something you are wearing and it shows the words inverted.
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That’s as good a way to say it as any. When you look down on something you are wearing . . . .
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Mirrors do flip images the way we see it in a mirror all texts gets flipped so we read it right to left instead of left to write.
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Yeah?
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