Friday, February 24, 2012
"If You Can’t Notice a Gorilla in Plain Sight, How Can You Testify as a Witness?"
Individually, I suspect we all think we are better at overlapping, multitasking, or juggling, than the other guy...
Discover's Valerie Ross recently wrote about Daniel Simons' findingsour fallabilities:
"Chabris and I have studied this phenomenon of inattentional blindness for many years. Our best-known study was based on earlier work by Ulric Neisser: We asked subjects to count how many times three players wearing white shirts passed a basketball while ignoring players wearing black who passed their own ball. We found that about 50 percent of subjects failed to notice when a person in a gorilla suit unexpectedly walked through the scene."
