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xXxkamikazibbyxXx (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Honestly, it's common courtesy to make eye contact with someone you interact with. How do you not notice one person of different hair and shirt color from an other -_-
AskaryuRS (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
@animelover123 I understand that, and I guess the whole idea is because people don't expect it. In this case it would just be; there's a guy in a hirt and tie with smart hair handing me a form. This does kind of tell the brain that there's nothing else important, but I'm one of those people who focuses on the person I'm interacting with, I wouldn't be looking around the room and stuff. (Maybe while I'm waiting to fill in the form).
animelover123 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
@animelover123: *very few people I mean :P
animelover123 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
@AskaryuRS: The funny thing is; when you ask people about it, everybody is like: "well, ofcourse I would notice it, especially if they don't even look alike". But very little people do :P My professor told me about this guy in the US military, very high in rank, very respected, and when asked how he does his work so well, he answers: It's because I'm extremely 'visual', I notice every single visual detail. Guess what? He 'failed' this experiment too :P
AskaryuRS (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Personally I feel that "change blindness" in an experiment like this can only truly work if there are similarities between the 2 people. For example, if they had the same hair colour or same coloured shirt. The fact that they are completely different would be immediately obvious to me. At least, this is what I think, can't say I've ever had a situation like this where something suddenly changes into something completely different without me noticing.
AskaryuRS (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
@thefameboy64 Hell yeah I did, haha. :D
LiraelSkywalker (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Good stuff, I love experiments like this! I think it's all about whether people are inwardly or outwardly focused, those that are focusing their attention on their surroundings are probably more likely to notice but the people that didn't notice seemed more inwardly focused because they asked questions like 'how long will it be' and turned away to look at the doors they were about to go through instead of at where the experimentor was stood, imo anyway...
thefameboy64 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
You just got linked from Cracked.
philtimesten (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
cool...so,uh...did i get the job?
Iamisfp (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Noticed the trick to first magic trick..if you pay attention you can see a ball hit the table inside the cup when he sets it down, (2 in it to start) he then misdirects and takes the other one away in his right hand (your left). |
