Experiencing The Stroop Effect With a Ruby CLI

Paul Götze
Analytics Vidhya
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3 min readJun 24, 2020

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You’ve probably seen these weird lists of color words before. Words whose text color does not match their content. Maybe you’ve even tried to read the text colors out loud quickly and have struggled to do so?

These lists are part of psychological tests to demonstrate the so-called Stroop effect. It is named after the American psychologist John Ridley Stroop, who first published the…

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Paul Götze
Analytics Vidhya

Authoring code. Drawing stuff. Comics addict and fan of bad jokes. Creator of adoptoposs.org & zarenwitze.de.