Stefan Mileschin

Fake science

Dark Mode is the "best feature" of macOS 10.14 Mojave, and the fruity cargo cult Apple claims that it can create a distraction-free working environment that’s easy on the eyes. However it turns out that if it is true then Apple fanboys do not have human brains.

Third-party developers have bought into Dark Mode and adapted their apps to support Dark Mode. The only problem is that the central concept is fake science.

According to Tidbits, Apple’s marketing claims about Dark Mode’s benefits fly in the face of the science of human visual perception.

Dark Mode is not easy on the eyes, in any way. The human eyes and brain prefer dark-on-light, and reversing that forces them to work harder to read text, parse controls, and comprehend what you’re seeing. Dark Mode likely makes those who turn it on slower and less productive.

Vision research has shown that humans prefer dark-on-light. That’s because, in the real world, the background of any scene around you is usually bright.

Humans evolved outside, and we are active during the daytime and asleep when it’s dark and our brains have evolved to care about are the objects in front of the background. Those objects are by definition darker than the background because they’re illuminated by the sun, or indoors, by whatever lights may be on. Light-colored objects stand out from a bright background because they’re illuminated from some direction other than precisely behind you. That makes for indirect illumination, putting much of the object in shadow and thus darker than the background.

https://fudzilla.com/news/48806-dark...test-snake-oil