What does an open-access empirical study find about preference for golden-ratio proportions?
A 2021 open-access study (256 online participants, plus an eye-tracking experiment with 15) reports only a slight overall preference for the golden ratio over 1.5 and 1.8 (53%), strongest for human figures, sculpture and paintings and absent for geometric shapes (48%). The authors themselves describe the earlier literature as conflicting. One study cannot settle the question; it supports at most a small category-dependent preference, and nothing tested placement of subjects in a frame.
A 2021 open-access study (256 online participants, plus an eye-tracking experiment with 15) reports only a slight overall preference for the golden ratio over 1.5 and 1.8 (53%), strongest for human figures, sculpture and paintings and absent for geometric shapes (48%). The authors themselves describe the earlier literature as conflicting. One study cannot settle the question; it supports at most a small category-dependent preference, and nothing tested placement of subjects in a frame.
Curator qualifications: Excerpted evidence located (two unexcerpted rows); golden-ratio preference study with mixed prior literature kept (links T17.08).
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- [sourced_fact] A 2021 open-access study (256 online participants, plus an eye-tracking experiment with 15) reports only a slight overall preference for the golden ratio over 1.5 and 1.8 (53%), strongest for human figures, sculpture and paintings and absent for geometric shapes (48%). The authors themselves describe the earlier literature as conflicting. One study cannot settle the question; it supports at most a small category-dependent preference, and nothing tested placement of subjects in a frame. · locator: candidate evidence excerpts source
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