Effect sizes of mountains and molehills.
Decisions about environmental aesthetics require valid, understandable measurements of visual impacts. This study reports well known scientific measurements (standardized mean contrasts) for well known images (mountains and molehills). The scientific measurements of visual preferences for mountains and molehills were 1.17 and -0.05, respectively.
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Institute of Environmental Quality, San Francisco, California 94110, USA. aestamps@ix.netcom.com
D001045:Aphorisms and Proverbs as Topic; D004777:Environment; D004954:Esthetics; D006801:Humans; D014796:Visual Perception; D014825:Vocabulary