I *thought *that I could identify the correct Apple logo. :smack: Nope.
Your Test Choices. Which one is the correct Apple logo?
I’ve seen this question asked a couple of times on Game Shows. Funny how hard it is to visualize something we see every day.
btw, when did they get rid of the rainbow colored logo?
I over thought the question. Picked the logo with the flat bottom because its easier to draw. Nope. That wasn’t right.
Nope. Got every sub detail correct except the direction of the stem.
But is that really bad? I bet people would fail that test with subtle variations of Ford, Chevrolet, GE, etc - anything with detail. I bet if you asked a random person to draw the Fed Ex logo, they wouldn’t get the arrow in there.
Now, if the test results showed the average person couldn’t tell the Apple logo from the Windows logo, or from the Chevy bowtie, well, then you’d have something!
So which is it? Can someone spoiler the right answer (as it pertains to the chart)
Test Answer
It is quite a brilliantly simple and effective logo. Instant brand recognition.
Assuming they don’t change the chart at random, the correct logo is:
right column, second from bottom
I did get it right, but maybe partly by chance. I knew the bite was on the right side, and the stem going up and to the right just looked a bit more correct, which it was.
I remember the bite is to the right. As a mnemonic. Sort of rhymes.
Got it. I also saw the Fedex “arrow” the first time I saw the logo (comes from being a designer).
:eek: I had never noticed that FedEx arrow. I just went to Google. Yeah, its there. How did I miss that for 30 years?
learned something new today. I better go lie down and rest. 
I got it, but it was a 50/50 chance at the end. I knew the bite and stem, but wasn’t sure about the bottom. Decided on the right one in the end.
Yeah, this is kind of a silly test/article. Even supposing that there’s a cheap knockoff company out there with a subtly different logo (leaf pointing opposite direction, for example) and so it would behoove you to be able to tell the logos apart through small details, Apple would be all over them with lawyers and shut them down anyway. So there’s no real-world point to remembering the exact details of the logo. The article says we don’t remember the little details of a lot of daily life things - yeah, exactly, because if we remembered every little detail in our life we’d turn into OCD people that have a compulsion to memorize every license plate we see. It does us no good to remember if Lincoln looks left or right on the penny - it literally does not matter. So obviously, we don’t go to the effort of remembering it. Of course, the article linked to doesn’t go into this and kind of generalizes around it like it’s a bad thing.
Hell, the source article this is from doesn’t even prep you for the test you’re about to take concerning the apple logo. Of course when presented with a line of text saying only, “Before you start, tell us how well you think you will do. The Apple logo will appear among 11 distractors. How easily will you find the correct logo without first checking it?” you won’t assume that it’s actually 12 small differences in the same logo. I thought I would be facing 12 different logos entirely. Of course that would be easy. 12 permutations of the same is not and if I had known that I would have voted accordingly. The apple logo IS extremely obvious, because there are no other logos like it in the world due to trademark. You will never confuse Apple with Ford, or McDonald’s, or even Apple with Microsoft, because it IS a very unique and well known logo. That people can’t remember specifically if the bite on the left or the right does not disprove this point like the article seems to imply.
FTR My chosen logo had the leaf pointing the wrong way. Because it doesn’t effin’ matter 
And I say that as a graphic designer whose job it is to do these things.
I got it right, and I don’t even own Apple products. I also got the penny right, but I used to collect coins, so I know things like which people face which way, and where the dates always are on certain coins.
Where’s the FedEx one?
Woo hoo I got it right!
For Fed Ex, there is a white space arrow in between the E and the X in “ex”
I got the bite on the right side; but I missed the leaf. 
I got it right, but mostly because I had recently seen a picture that had the logo backwards for physical reasons, and I had noticed that the bite was supposed to be on the right.
Jeez, the Apple logo I keep seeing is a sort of a spinning rainbow beach ball…
I actually got the right one…
But what’s funny is that I was looking at the dimpled vs rounded bottom versions of the right logo and couldn’t tell the difference. I was only looking at the bite and the leaf. Paid no attention whatsoever to the bottom :smack:
It wasn’t until people started talking about flat bottoms in this thread that I picked up on that part of the variations!
For the record, the article also mentions a test about the T key on a keyboard. THAT I can get right, but I had to pretend to type things to remember it all.
Dead easy, then again, I have been an Apple user since 1982/83
How about a hard one…
What does the word “Moof” represent?
Dogcow!
