From the Visual Cognition Lab of the University of Illinois, an experiment to see how much we notice.
Carefully count the number of times a ball is caught, or bounced.
Notice anything unusual?
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Sunday 2 September 2007
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Anonymous commenters - please add a signature (doesn't have to be your real name) on each post of yours. Anne O'Namus, Norm D. Ploom, Angry from Kent, Demosthenes, or even your real initials, it doesn't matter.
Commenters are expected to be polite to each other, but the same standard doesn't apply to comments regarding me.
Australian commenters are very very strongly advised to publish anonymously. Sydney alone has more defamation actions than the entire USA and UK. Nearly double that of the UK in fact.
As Google does not reliably inform me that a comment has been posted, and I have no control over first publication, I assert that all comments are innocently disseminated under the NSW DEFAMATION ACT 2005 - SECT 32 and similar acts.
I don't get it. Am I supposed to be able to count the bounces and the catches or to notice the guy in the guerrila outfit? Or is there something I am just not seeing?
ReplyDeleteYou'd be surprised at the number of people who don't see the gorilla in the midst.
ReplyDeleteI lost count as soon as I saw the gorilla suit guy step in. I thought it was an experiment on how easily we can get distracted by simians -- and those dressed as simians. :P
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