Judgments of mathematical beauty are resistant to revision through external opinion

We here address the question of the extent to which judgments of mathematical beauty (which we categorize as biological beauty) are resistant to revision through external opinion. A total of 100 mathematicians of different national and ethnic origins were asked to rate 60 mathematical equations for...

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Autores principales: Zhang, Haoxuan, Zeki, Semir
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9790661/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35491015
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pchj.556
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description We here address the question of the extent to which judgments of mathematical beauty (which we categorize as biological beauty) are resistant to revision through external opinion. A total of 100 mathematicians of different national and ethnic origins were asked to rate 60 mathematical equations for their beauty; after being presented a fictitious “expert rating,” they were asked to re‐rate the same equations. Results showed that the judgments of mathematical beauty had a high level of resistance to external opinion. This is in line with the resistance to revision of a judgments for other categories of biological beauty.
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spelling pubmed-97906612022-12-28 Judgments of mathematical beauty are resistant to revision through external opinion Zhang, Haoxuan Zeki, Semir Psych J Original Articles We here address the question of the extent to which judgments of mathematical beauty (which we categorize as biological beauty) are resistant to revision through external opinion. A total of 100 mathematicians of different national and ethnic origins were asked to rate 60 mathematical equations for their beauty; after being presented a fictitious “expert rating,” they were asked to re‐rate the same equations. Results showed that the judgments of mathematical beauty had a high level of resistance to external opinion. This is in line with the resistance to revision of a judgments for other categories of biological beauty. John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd 2022-05-01 2022-10 /pmc/articles/PMC9790661/ /pubmed/35491015 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pchj.556 Text en © 2022 The Authors. PsyCh Journal published by Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences and John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9790661/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35491015
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pchj.556
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