{"id":90,"date":"2007-10-02T22:59:16","date_gmt":"2007-10-03T06:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.otherthings.com\/blog2\/?p=90"},"modified":"2007-10-02T22:59:16","modified_gmt":"2007-10-03T06:59:16","slug":"high-scoring-scrabble-letters-are-darker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/high-scoring-scrabble-letters-are-darker\/","title":{"rendered":"High scoring Scrabble letters are darker!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/otherthings.com\/uw\/syn\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=0 alt=\"light_vowels_dark_consonants.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.otherthings.com\/blog\/images\/light_vowels_dark_consonants.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"206\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_new\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2007\/09\/070918161553.htm\">Common Letters And Numbers Are Brighter, Study Suggests<\/a>.  Makes perfect sense to me!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always found it curious that the five highest-scoring Scrabble letters (K, J, Q, X and Z) all happen to be different shades of brown in my <a href=\"http:\/\/otherthings.com\/uw\/syn\">synesthetic map<\/a> of the alphabet.  Now there&#8217;s a <a target=\"_new\" href=\"http:\/\/www.psychologicalscience.org\/media\/releases\/2007\/smilek.cfm\">new study by Daniel Smilek et al<\/a> that suggests that this may be a pretty common phenomenon: &#8220;The More Common the Digit, the More Radiant the Color in Grapheme Color Synaesthesia&#8221;.  How cool!  This is the same Smilek who <a target=\"_new\" href=\"http:\/\/watarts.uwaterloo.ca\/~src\/papers\/Dixon.CABN.2004.pdf\">distinguished &#8220;projector&#8221; from &#8220;associator&#8221; synaesthetes<\/a> in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>(thanks to <a target=\"_new\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesbuckhouse.com\/\">James<\/a> for the link!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Common Letters And Numbers Are Brighter, Study Suggests. Makes perfect sense to me! I&#8217;ve always found it curious that the five highest-scoring Scrabble letters (K, J, Q, X and Z) all happen to be different shades of brown in my synesthetic map of the alphabet. Now there&#8217;s a new study by Daniel Smilek et al &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/high-scoring-scrabble-letters-are-darker\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">High scoring Scrabble letters are darker!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-synesthesia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":489,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions\/489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}