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2024-03-09 15:54:28 UTC - NOT_HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 6B3D363FE5A4A6410FE95AF7DB02DB5F83EB64C37321AB3F4618CD7630887EF7
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The "Devil's face" in the 1954 Canadian Landscape bank notes is a notable example of pareidolia. Pareidolia is the tendency to perceive meaningful image in ambiguous patterns. The bank note art is based on this photo and is just hair, not the devil: https://www.bankofcanadamuseum.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/140.06-devils-head-comparison-740x525.jpg https://uphyl.pratt.duke.edu/Sci_Am_Mind.pdf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophenia#Pareidolia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia https://www.bankofcanadamuseum.ca/2018/10/devil-hairdo/ https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20140730-why-do-we-see-faces-in-objects
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