I bet 95% of you will miss this

[BobG]

Looks like a BMW 5 series with an E28 body style in production from 1982 - 1988. If I had to guess I'd say it was a 528.

Did anybody even ask about the car?

She does have nice legs, though.

 

[BobG]

This experiment has been done over and over and over and over..
sometimes it's a person in a gorilla suit. sometimes it's a person with an umbrella. The "count the basketball passes" experimental paradigm is pretty standard.

Would be kind of interesting to try it with a sexy girl/guy walking through the scene and see if it makes any difference.

Here is a video on the attention system and things we miss:


and I could care less about brunettes or blondes. It was a joke.

Looking at the report mattmns linked to, it looks like a person would see a woman with an umbrella easier than a gorilla. And it's easier to see the gorilla if you're counting passes of the black team. That seems counter-intuitive. You'd think the more bizarre the interruption, the more noticeable it would be. Instead, the easier it is to discard the interruption as irrelevant to your task, the less noticeable the interruption is. It looks like it works as an attention filter.

So why do drivers have such a hard time seeing motorcycles and bicycles? Because they've mentally conditioned themselves to look for cars. Motorcycles, bicycles, and pedestrians are filtered out of drivers' attention.

 

[rewebster]

Looking at the report mattmns linked to, it looks like a person would see a woman with an umbrella easier than a gorilla. And it's easier to see the gorilla if you're counting passes of the black team. That seems counter-intuitive. You'd think the more bizarre the interruption, the more noticeable it would be. Instead, the easier it is to discard the interruption as irrelevant to your task, the less noticeable the interruption is. It looks like it works as an attention filter.

So why do drivers have such a hard time seeing motorcycles and bicycles? Because they've mentally conditioned themselves to look for cars. Motorcycles, bicycles, and pedestrians are filtered out of drivers' attention.

Using that same logic, I think that's why I usually don't see too many intelligent women.


(actually, I think its because all the good ones aren't available for too long, or they're intelligent enough to stay out of the bar scene.)

 

[binzing]

Nevermind.

This always makes me laugh, did Nirvana's second album really have so much influence as to get most people to spell never mind like this?

 

[DaveC426913]

too large breasts

You know just stringing words together doesn't automatically mean they make sense.

Look:
gigantic dwarf
the sound of blue
too much chocolate

 

[DaveC426913]

edit... looks like a Harvard professor performed this experiment in 1999: http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~cfc/Simons1999.pdf#search=%22Simons%20and%20Chabris%20on%20sustained%20inattentional%20blindness%22

edit2... wasn't the "original" video posted here a couple years ago? I could have sworn I seen it somewhere.

Yeah. It's gone now.

 

[BobG]

Using that same logic, I think that's why I usually don't see too many intelligent women.


(actually, I think its because all the good ones aren't available for too long, or they're intelligent enough to stay out of the bar scene.)

Or because they see you first?

 

[rewebster]

Or because they see you first?

maybe that's why I see a lot of the backs of women's heads