{"id":89164,"date":"2019-04-02T18:04:55","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T01:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/which-of-the-5-senses-is-best-scientists-finally-settle-a-heated-debate"},"modified":"2019-04-02T18:04:55","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T01:04:55","slug":"which-of-the-5-senses-is-best-scientists-finally-settle-a-heated-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/which-of-the-5-senses-is-best-scientists-finally-settle-a-heated-debate","title":{"rendered":"Which of the 5 Senses Is Best? Scientists Finally Settle a Heated Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If there is one thing Twitter has taught us, it\u2019s that the world loves a question that sounds stupid but actually has a profound and interesting answer. For instance, what would happen if the world suddenly turned into blueberries<\/a>, as answered by physics recently. Or what color is that dress<\/a>?<\/p>\n

In a similar way, perception scientists have recently been fighting it out on Twitter<\/a> to answer the seemingly trivial question of: \u201cWhich is the best sense and why?\u201d The debate has opened up some surprisingly deep questions \u2014 like what actually makes a sense more or less valuable? And, are some senses fundamentally more important in making us human?<\/p>\n

The question was also put to a poll. While most people would probably assume the obvious winner is vision, \u201csomatosensation\u201d \u2014 which we normally refer to as touch but technically incorporates all sensations from our body \u2014 took the day<\/a>. But does this vote hold up when you take a closer look at the scientific evidence?<\/p>\n

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If there is one thing Twitter has taught us, it\u2019s that the world loves a question that sounds stupid but actually has a profound and interesting answer. For instance, what would happen if the world suddenly turned into blueberries, as answered by physics recently. Or what color is that dress? In a similar way, perception [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}