On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 4:22 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > >>As I understand it, the artistic merit of the drawing is not relevant. > Things like total number of details, POV, what elements are included - > regardless of artistic ability - are measured.<< > Yes, but that also runs into a problem...the ebbinghaus curve of > forgetting. We usually forget a lot of details from any situation, and > quickly. So filling in those details will be difficult even for the most > honest amongst us. >
It depends - if the situation is exciting and adrenalin invoking you may have no difficulty remembering. About 6 or 7 years ago I had just gotten off a bus and a minute later I realized I no longer had my wallet with me. I was in a foreign country with very little money outside of the wallet which also had my only 3 credit cards. It was very scared naturally. The next few minutes I was clearly operating on auto-pilot - I pulled out my cell phone and dialed in sequence each of the 3 credit card companies on their toll free numbers, recalled each of the three 16 digit number sequences, dates of expiry and CVV codes. 5 minutes later even before I realized what I'd just done I'd managed to use the IVR computers of the banks to report the loss of my cards. This was a completely accurate memory recall of over 200 digits that I had no idea I even knew. So who knows, I think the human mind works differently under pressure. Cheeni
