Started by Hannah Kim (@hannahk_ux) ·
the invisible gorilla (one of the classics that actually replicates)
Count the passes by the players in white. In the original 1999 study, roughly half of people missed a person in a gorilla suit walking right through. I'd seen it before so I caught the gorilla, then their follow-up video got me with something else. You see what you're looking for.
5 sources · 26 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- “selective attention test simons chabris”
- Ended at
- “radiologists missed gorilla ct scan study”
The Trail
- “selective attention test simons chabris” (youtube.com)
- Inattentional blindness (en.wikipedia.org)
- Daniel Simons (en.wikipedia.org)
- Change blindness (en.wikipedia.org)
the study where the stranger asking you for directions gets swapped for a different person mid-conversation
- “radiologists missed gorilla ct scan study” (google.com)
2013: most radiologists hunting for lung nodules missed a small gorilla pasted into the scan
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