A story blaming modern decor for headaches misread its own source study (studyfinds.com)
StudyFinds says striped floors and flickering LEDs may be quietly overloading your visual cortex, citing a 32-author review in the journal Vision. Readers went straight to the open-access paper and found the site had the science backwards: the actual mechanism is luminance contrast, not vaguely defined "visual complexity."
Even the thread's own leading theory - that minimalism exists because everyone expects to move - got shredded by a reader who pointed out that rich homeowners are its biggest fans.
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