Are You Paying Attention?
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Some researchers suggest that your attention span may be as short as 8 seconds.Um… try testing it with this exercise. You have to focus on how many times the playerswearing white pass the ball.You may have noticed the white team passed the ball 16 times. You also may have noticedthis gorilla walking through the game, especially if you’ve seen this video before.But if you were watching the gorilla, and the white team, you may not have noticed thebackground changing colour or one of the players on the black team leaving.This experiment, called “The Monkey Business Illusion”, was popularised by two Harvardresearchers in 1999. It’s based on a similar 1975 study where a women with a white umbrellawalks through a basketball game. The invisible gorilla researc...
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Some researchers suggest that your attention span may be as short as 8 seconds.Um… try testing it with this exercise. You have to focus on how many times the playerswearing white pass the ball.You may have noticed the white team passed the ball 16 times. You also may have noticedthis gorilla walking through the game, especially if you’ve seen this video before.But if you were watching the gorilla, and the white team, you may not have noticed thebackground changing colour or one of the players on the black team leaving.This experiment, called “The Monkey Business Illusion”, was popularised by two Harvardresearchers in 1999. It’s based on a similar 1975 study where a women with a white umbrellawalks through a basketball game. The invisible gorilla researc...
