It's in English, and HN is an American website. Also Norwegian and American culture are not so distant. I'm just trying to understand because it seems like some kind of cultural phenomena, but I may be wrong. I can't visualize an year even if I take acid, visualizing concepts is just not the way my mind works. Perhaps this is some kind of art-game or something? Or are these people actually saying they see these images when they think about and use the concept of a year???
> visualizing concepts is just not the way my mind works
> are these people actually saying they see these images when they think about and use the concept of a year
I do (not a circle but definitely a visualisation I see in my head).
I don't know how reliable the data is, nor how well understood the topic is, but most studies I've seen on this do show the majority of people visually visualise concepts in their head; not universally, there's always people who don't visualise at all, but primary differences discussed in these type of results tend to be whether people's visualisations are vivid or vague or something different.
