Over at HappyPlace.com, there’s a great collection of problematic images from student textbooks. Consider this image from a math textbook:
My guess is that the photo below is either from a social studies textbook or the pamphlet for a fraternity:
Here’s a snippet from science textbook whose purpose is to scare the crap out of people who don’t have red-green colour vision confusion (it used to be called “colour blindness”):
6 replies on “Problematic Textbook Pictures”
I have a hat just like that!
What if you see a number, but it’s not 15???
Maria:
Whoops, on my way to CAMH.
I really am red-green colour blind! Someone tell me what it says!
James McLachlan: The caption says you should see the number 15, but the number in red dots is actually 29.
I still don’t get it.
🙂