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<blockquote data-quote="Merkuri" data-source="post: 4534395" data-attributes="member: 41321">I counted 13 and saw the gorilla right away, but that may have been because I was expecting something &quot;funny&quot; to happen so when I saw motion on the side of the screen I paid attention to it (without losing count).&nbsp; I've done too many of these things to trust them at face value so I had a feeling it was not about the number of basketball passes.I'm usually completely oblivious, though.&nbsp; There have been several times when I've gone to the mall, been separated from the person I came in with, and realized as I was looking for them that I had no idea whatsoever what they were wearing - not their shirt color, not even whether they had a jacket or not - and I had been interacting with this person all day.By the way, I suspect that even if you were watching the black-shirted people you'd still miss the gorilla because you're focused on the basketball, not the people themselves.&nbsp; I believe there were three people with each color shirt on, so you're just looking at the person who has the ball and the person he passes it to and are completely ignoring the third person (and the gorilla).You know, I wonder how the results fell along gender lines.&nbsp; I could see that a hunter would want to be able to focus on its prey to the exclusion of everything else, but a gatherer would want to be able to notice everything at once, and back in the stone age the men were the hunters and the women the gatherers.&nbsp; I wouldn't be surprised if more men missed the gorilla than women.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Merkuri, post: 4534395, member: 41321"] I counted 13 and saw the gorilla right away, but that may have been because I was expecting something "funny" to happen so when I saw motion on the side of the screen I paid attention to it (without losing count). I've done too many of these things to trust them at face value so I had a feeling it was not about the number of basketball passes. I'm usually completely oblivious, though. There have been several times when I've gone to the mall, been separated from the person I came in with, and realized as I was looking for them that I had no idea whatsoever what they were wearing - not their shirt color, not even whether they had a jacket or not - and I had been interacting with this person all day. By the way, I suspect that even if you were watching the black-shirted people you'd still miss the gorilla because you're focused on the basketball, not the people themselves. I believe there were three people with each color shirt on, so you're just looking at the person who has the ball and the person he passes it to and are completely ignoring the third person (and the gorilla). You know, I wonder how the results fell along gender lines. I could see that a hunter would want to be able to focus on its prey to the exclusion of everything else, but a gatherer would want to be able to notice everything at once, and back in the stone age the men were the hunters and the women the gatherers. I wouldn't be surprised if more men missed the gorilla than women. [/QUOTE]

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