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In reply to the discussion: Why are so many robots white? [View all]
Igel
(37,613 posts)38. Others have tried to replicate Clarks' studies.
Not all got the same results. In one rather well published and intensely vetted case, "sharply different" was the phrase used to describe the difference.
A high schooler got the same results ... But that was a goal, and science isn't about showing you're right, it's about trying to show you're wrong. Ideally. Like ideals matter in a sharply polarized environment.
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A black metal robot is a weapon of war. we have been taught this by scifi movies
ZonkerHarris
Jan 2024
#4
I'm suggesting their color. the other (color) hand, there's Darth Vader, classic black hat bad guy.
cbabe
Jan 2024
#21
so to make your point about robots your chose two examples that are not robots.
ZonkerHarris
Jan 2024
#22
Mmmm ... maybe just a tad over the top? We never spiked our note cards after we won an agument in debate.
marble falls
Jan 2024
#23
in a discussion about robots why are you both talking about humans? Not comparable
ZonkerHarris
Jan 2024
#33
I wish they wouldn't make most internal computer parts black/dark. They tend to blend together.
eppur_se_muova
Jan 2024
#12
Because many other colors would be offensive to many groups of people.
republianmushroom
Jan 2024
#15
To better contrast the blood splatters of their owners when the robots chop them up in their sleep.
TheBlackAdder
Feb 2024
#69
Why are all my kitchen appliances, computer tower, keyboard, monitor, and TV black?????????
LeftInTX
Feb 2024
#40
In the 80's and 90's, computer desktops/towers, keyboards, monitors & mice were beige
Polybius
Feb 2024
#44
Try searching: robot examples medicine. Or other fields of interest such as autism, elder care, etc.
cbabe
Feb 2024
#50
I think they should be fuschia, cobalt, chartreuse, lemon, puce, and other colors.
TygrBright
Feb 2024
#52
Yet Scarlett Johansson evolved into a black computer protected by Morgan Freeman in Lucy.
limbicnuminousity
Feb 2024
#68