Comments on: Can you trust your mind?

By: Kala

Kala — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 19:18:52 +0000

In reply to *BrokenJohnny* this experiment has everything to do with choice and perceptual blindness and not if a person is a ” worthless, mindless sheep”. If anyone is concentrating so hard on the number of throws, their brain will not process the arrival of the gorilla. You should read up on both of the blindnesses on Wikipedia. The links are
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choice_blindness
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_blindness

By: Anthony

Anthony — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 04:37:09 +0000

This is really cool. I just sent this to my work and will use it for my presentation. This fits perfectly into the sales industry as there is so much opportunity out there that we just miss. Thanks for the video!!

By: MissMe

MissMe — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 15:14:15 +0000

LOL

This is so funny! I noticed this wierd guy in a furry suit and a ski mask(lol, wes). But I counted 14 passes. I wonder how many passes there are exactly? ROFL

-MissMe

By: wicklamulla

wicklamulla — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:17:50 +0000

LOL i counted 15 passes but i didn’t see the gorilla till the second viewing ! made me laugh me head off tghough !!!!

By: F

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 19:38:39 +0000

Wow !! I got 14 counts and the gorilla was doing silly tricks. Truthfully I did this exercise the other way around I watched it and saw the gorilla and watched it again to count the balls.

Take what you can out of this.

By: good one

good one — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 02:21:04 +0000

watched this at work in a marketing dept. — maybe 4-5 out of 20 people saw the gorilla… haha… while watching, i almost blurted something outloud about the gorilla but didn’t. We all counted 17 passes though for the white team. THANKS!

By: helmut

helmut — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 09:44:37 +0000

counted 14 but saw only the pictures of a person funny dressed
as a gorilla. A gorilla would have raised more attention i think.

By: carl carvo

carl carvo — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 01:14:57 +0000

I didnt see the gorilla at all…

but give poor Johnny a break, he is just trying to make himself feel better…

maybe he doesnt get the chance to feel smart very often… you go Johnny… your better then everybody else… LOL

By: us drugstore

us drugstore — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:57:12 +0000

Am I supposed to believe that you all really just didnâ€™t even NOTICE the guy in the gorilla suit when you were counting? I find that hard to believe.

By: FDA

FDA — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:32:48 +0000

gorilla is funky … thanks for posting the movie