The Harding What Test?

I was opening new tabs when an article on Yahoo! got my attention. It was about a music video that will not be played on MTV for reasons that do not include violence and sex. And so I just had to check it out...

To quote:
"That's because of its strobe effects, which caused the clip to fail the Harding Test -- guidelines established to prevent TV images from triggering epileptic seizures."

I did not know that there was such a thing. I remember during the 80s and when MTV was just starting, I wouldn't watch it. I thought the images were not within my comfort zone. I was quite young then, naturally. But when I was in my senior year in college, we stayed on this channel most of the time specially during thesis time. I don't know if I have grown accustomed to it (proof that liking something can be taught/learned) or was it some some sort of mind programming?

Anyway, we learn something new everyday.