I have seen this before, and I still think that it is in some way bullshit. I just haven't figured it out yet.
It isn't. You can open the image in MSPaint (which only shows still images) cut out piece of either square and see that it matches, exactly, the other.
That was really cool.We did a lot of these when I was in eyeball school. Here's my favorite...but you need to read these instructions before you click on the link....
There's two groups of people (one group wearing white shirts, the other wearing black). Each group has a basketball that they are passing back and forth to people on their own team. Your job is to ignore the guys in the black shirts and count how many times the white shirts pass the basketball to each other. That's it.
http://viscog.beckman.uiuc.edu/grafs/demos/15.html
The answer...There's actually a guy in a gorilla suit that's walks into view about halfway through the video. People are split about 50/50 whether they see him or not. The people that don't see the gorilla miss it because their brain has decided to ignore the stimuli that are black(the black shirts), and they've succeeded. The people that DO see him are less able to keep themselves attending to an assigned task. We did this in a group of about 150 people and it was amazing; half the class was stunned to hear that their was a gorilla, and the other half couldn't believe that people missed it!
That was really cool.We did a lot of these when I was in eyeball school. Here's my favorite...but you need to read these instructions before you click on the link....
There's two groups of people (one group wearing white shirts, the other wearing black). Each group has a basketball that they are passing back and forth to people on their own team. Your job is to ignore the guys in the black shirts and count how many times the white shirts pass the basketball to each other. That's it.
http://viscog.beckman.uiuc.edu/grafs/demos/15.html
The answer...There's actually a guy in a gorilla suit that's walks into view about halfway through the video. People are split about 50/50 whether they see him or not. The people that don't see the gorilla miss it because their brain has decided to ignore the stimuli that are black(the black shirts), and they've succeeded. The people that DO see him are less able to keep themselves attending to an assigned task. We did this in a group of about 150 people and it was amazing; half the class was stunned to hear that their was a gorilla, and the other half couldn't believe that people missed it!
That was really cool.We did a lot of these when I was in eyeball school. Here's my favorite...but you need to read these instructions before you click on the link....
There's two groups of people (one group wearing white shirts, the other wearing black). Each group has a basketball that they are passing back and forth to people on their own team. Your job is to ignore the guys in the black shirts and count how many times the white shirts pass the basketball to each other. That's it.
http://viscog.beckman.uiuc.edu/grafs/demos/15.html
The answer...There's actually a guy in a gorilla suit that's walks into view about halfway through the video. People are split about 50/50 whether they see him or not. The people that don't see the gorilla miss it because their brain has decided to ignore the stimuli that are black(the black shirts), and they've succeeded. The people that DO see him are less able to keep themselves attending to an assigned task. We did this in a group of about 150 people and it was amazing; half the class was stunned to hear that their was a gorilla, and the other half couldn't believe that people missed it!
