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Pop Art Quiz

*Below are the results of 15 participants.

1. Out of the six questions, how many questions did you get right?

2. Did you expect to get that many questions right or wrong?

3. Did you have a strategy?

Strategies given by each participant:

1. tried to remember as much as she could

2. defocused eyes to see general picture

3. got an overall idea by looking at the rows

4. looked at the thing as a whole to see if anything flickered

5. stared at the screen, then at the big picture

6. looked all over page

7. circled around the page, whatever she just happened to be looking at

8. looking at the white squares

4. Did you think that you effectively or ineffectively processed the information presented?

Analysis:

Among the 15 people, the questions answered correctly were split fairly evenly between two, three, four, and five. As a result, no common trend existed in the number of questions that they got right or wrong.

My objectives in the following questions were as follows. In question 2, I wanted to see how people first approached the artwork and their task when it was originally presented. Would this be an easy activity (scoring right answers) or would it present a challenge (scoring poorly?) In question 3, my goal was to see how the participants actually went about completing the quiz and lastly, their ability to process the information they saw.

My data was split when it came to expectations, strategy, and effectiveness at processing information. However, not finding a common conclusion was significant. Before questioning anyone, I thought that all people would do relatively poorly. I did not expect to see such contrasts in the data, but it did show that each person truly dealt differently with the information. Interestingly, six out of the eight strategies included pertained to an overall, general picture of the artwork. From this, two points stand out. With so many boxes and colors, it was almost impossible to notice the details. It was necessary to look at the figure as a whole. Also, despite similar strategies presented, the number of correct answers widely varied. Just as Paul Groebstein mentioned, no brain is the same. Each brain has its inherent differences.