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That's because most people can't draw.

A better example would be: could the average person accurately imagine a bicycle? Can their brain generate the correct image, even if they lack the skills to draw it?



The link I provided shows that people can't visualize a bicycle accurately; people were asked to doodle what they imagined a bicycle is laid out, and most of the drawings were structurally unsound, to say the least


IMO if you asked someone to think of a picture of a bicycle and had a way to turn their mental image into a jpg, you'd get 1000x better output than asking people to try and doodle one because drawing is much more difficult than visualizing, and most people know they have trouble drawing so kind of goof their doodles as almost an unconscious self-deprecation to express their self-consciousness about it.




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