@@thebeststooge Do you mean every time someone clicks the link or every video they put the ad in. Because I've seen RU-vidrs of much smaller size get offered a lot more.
Too much focus on counting on white shirted people. But I didn't focus on it because it's literally countable without focus. So I saw the gorilla-dressed person right after he/she enters.
Here's how I noticed the gorilla: As soon as they started passing the ball, I was convinced there was no way in hell I could keep track of it all. So I just hopelessly stared at the center of the group. It was then that a black figure walked into the center of my hopeless focus. Then I was like thinking, "What the hell is a gorilla doing there? I thought we're supposed to be counting white shirts."
Watson: How do you notice such things, Holmes? Sherlock: How long have we shared these rooms? Watson: Two years. Sherlock: You walk up the stairs from the ground floor at least twice a day, do you not? Watson: Yes, so? Sherlock: How many steps are there? Watson: I... I've never counted them. Sherlock: There are twenty-two. You see, but you do not observe. Not verbatim but from a Sherlock Holmes story I read 30+ years ago.
Holmes may be fictional, buy he's an example of how his detective work relies on having to keep an open mind to all manner of subjects to solve crimes and mysteries.
@@lesteryaytrippy7282 Ironically, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was remarkably credulous and believed his good friend Harry Houdini actually had supernatural powers. I've watched lots of magic tricks that I can't explain. I don't believe supernatural magic is the answer for any of them. "Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth." How arrogant to think anyone can think of every possibility and work out which ones are impossible! "Once you exhaust your own limited imagination, whatever remains unexplained, no matter how impossible, must be the supernatural." Holmes is a fun character, but he's very far removed from reality, and practical methods.
People use muscle memory climbing stairs. Put a 1" thick board on a higher step at night. Called a farmers alarm. After six steps your brain coordinates with balance, run and rise. Hit that 1" change... yer laying on your ass at the bottom of the stairs.
You didn't mention the one that always seems the most obvious to me: when you write a long letter or other piece of writing, you have to read it extremely carefully multiple times, and preferably get someone else to edit it for you. I remember when my sister and I wrote a book as teenagers, we re-read the entire manuscript around 10 times, and still, after printing a few copies of it I still found numerous errors where we'd used completely incorrect words or punctuation. Our brains knew the story backwards, and were so conditioned to what they expected to find, that they just skipped over the obvious errors, even when we were actively and deliberately editing it
Τhats where there is a second front seat on cars, and drivers are advised to drive within speed limits. While i was doing my driving training one day i missed a whored red light because my tutor had told me to watch our for something else.
Hehe, only the first time it happens. I found myself executing perfect turns to places I wasn't actually going, because that was were my home was. After the first one I just go "autopilot" and turn back, lol.
@@dustinjames1268 And it's even scarier riding a motorcycle on autopilot at 60mph and it turns off just in time to not kill yourself approaching a 10mph corner with a rock face on the outer edge of the corner, where you come to a complete stop within 1 meter of said rock face after the bike was sliding all over the place wondering if you will stop before impact.
I didn't miss too. I saw it but chose to ignore cos it didn't matter. I continued counting. I felt like a genius or one with a brain that wastes too much energy on unneeded data😅😅😅😅
Yeah that's the case with me too, I thought it was just a dark clothed guy until he was about 1/3 of the way onto the screen, really though how could anyone not notice it, certainly when he stopped in the middle of the screen to do gorilla type poses.
I guess it has to do with the way you focus, and that is situational. Maybe some people because they were given such a simple thing to look for were constantly concentrating on the balls so as not to miss anything. I was continually refocusing, on the ball when necessary, and the rest of the time on looking for anything relevant so I saw someone else enter almost instantly, then realised it was different from the others shortly after. I think it's good to think of things almost as though they are trick questions, regardless of whether there is any 'trick' it encourages the mind to see things from more perspectives.
@@buckiesmalls The video starts mid-pass. There were 11 more bounce passes, one of these being a bounce pass, plus 11 dribbles. Why I felt the need to count the dribbles too, I'll never know.
Referring to the finding ice cream in the ice cream tub reference: In many parts of America, When you open a tub of butter at your grandmas house, it could be anything from butter to salsa, spaghetti, beans, cake, corn, chicken, pudding, etc. So...
Another super video! This goes along with something I've thought about often. I frequently attend meetings of various groups of people. The room is a typical fluorescent lit large office with plain walls and about 14 or so folding tables forming a large rectangle. Chairs are arranged around the tables and walls forming sort of a large conference room. The chairs and tables all have rollers, so everything gets shoved about when people leave without pushing their chairs back in. When the room is left in disorder, the group meetings frequently go the same way... a bit disorganized. However, when I take the time to line up the tables and chairs neatly, the participants generally take their seats and are more focussed on the topic of the day. I believe this is because the messy room takes more effort to navigate, lest you bump into a table or don't get the kind of chair you like. The orderly room is predictable while the messy room is not. It requires more brain power to simply come in and find a place to sit. In a similar way, aircraft designers have learned to put fewer alarms and distracting indicators on the instrument panel so pilots don't "tune them out" leading to more frequent "controlled flight into terrain" incidents that really hurt on-time arrivals and departures. And passengers. The same is true of nurses' stations in busy hospitals, where constant beeps and alarms going off every time Mr. Smithee in 237 wants his TV channel changed may lead to Ms Jones sudden cardiac arrest going unnoticed. I further posit that my ADD friend likes his hideously messy office because the disorder keeps his wandering mind more entertained. All interesting stuff. Do keep up the most intelligent channel on RU-vid. American radio host Glenn Beck used to describe his show as the meeting place of entertainment and enlightenment. He missed out as he devolved into a right-wing blowhard. You, sir, have taken that title away from him in a very successful way. Thank you.
Reminds me of that one time when I almost drank motor oil for cola. Luckily the taste difference woke me. Never drank cola since then. Maybe that is also why I like to sniff stuff before eating/drinking them.
@@Notmyname1593 funny thing in my country, the Philippines, you won't expect what an ice cream container would contain. Some (if not most) Filipinos use used ice cream containers to place their food. So I am now always keeping myself from opening ice cream containers because I might just disappoint myself.
Jerel Damon he’s saying “thoughty 2” but it sounds like “forty-two” because of his accent, some English accents pronounce the “th” as a “f” , for example they say “fought” when saying “thought”.
So I am a professional driver, and it took months or retraining my brain to eliminate barely half of the blind spots it creates while driving. The absolute hardest one to break is the change from the norm habit. I have seen buses drive in front of trains because "there is never a train there." As a professional driver I HAVE to see these changes. I have to notice what 99% of other drivers miss or ignore. This video does a great job of explaining why it is people who have retrained themselves to see these thing find other driver so incompetent or annoying.
some woman watched my mom while she was driving down the street , look left and right several times ad before she pulled right out and crashed into her. She said "I could just tell that you didn't see me"
Great video … another thing worth mentioning is car accidents and how only yesterday at work I dealt with two separate accidents caused by idiots who weren’t paying attention
@@xhelixshotx It wasn't 30 times. It was once. Before the RSL ad he was wearing a totally different shirt. I thought it was weird until I realized the purpose at the end of the video. He was literally demonstrating the entire theory.
Saw the gorila but ignored it because i thought someone is gonna play a sneaky on me and randomly insert a forth person while i am distracted by the gorila guy Edit: I got the task wrong i was supposed to count the passes not people in a white shirt , dont ask how
While i was counting the passes i suddenly spotted a new person in there, and i assumed it was supposed to distract me so i missed the passes, but it took a few seconds to realise it was a guy dressed like a gorilla.
14:57 In this case, my brain has built a model to predicatively expect to see a women's cleavage when she is bent over..... and in this case, my brain was correct.
@@alvachan88 I knew when I wrote that comment that I could predicatively expect someone would leave just such a comment as yours about my comment. Ta Da...
Bruh grammar. “Haven’t watched this is a while” Add some punctuation kid. I am not asking for perfect english, but at least make your comment sensible.
EmpireBuilder, I’m not going to add punctuation as a mere act of defiance. Thanks for having me read my comment again though, you helped me notice the, “is”, that slipped my eye.
Celestial Lemon it is ironic. For a comment on a video about missing details you miss a detail right after. Really shows that you (as in the public) can’t change your mind in an instant.
Sherlock Holmes was known to say that if a man remembered everything he'd ever learned (heard or seen), he could predict the future. That seems to fit your theory.
@Urayis wish l Anything that can be called an "accident" or "co-incidence" occurs AGAINST the odds of probability. So, no, not "EVERYTHING" falls under that description. It would be more accurate to say that that everything is the result of cause and effect and is part of a pattern or cycle.If you know that day follows night and then it becomes day again, you can predict that any time and be correct. There are no co-incidences..
Sherlock Holmes was a fictional character. That theory has one big hole. To predict the future with any accuracy you would have to experience the whole universe so it could be the predictive model you're working from. We all work from predictive models. An IQ is nothing more than ones ability to recognize and predict patterns. Some have a better capacity to do this than others.
Didn't you pay attention to the rest of the video? Your brain created a predictive model. Because there is a 100% chance that a youtuber will be sponsored by Raid: Shadow Legends, your brain automatically expects to to hear "Raid: Shadow Legends" following a word from our sponsor type sentence.
i cant blame anyone for taking sponsor money, it makes sense i can blame sponsors for lying about paying people to advertise tho Thoughty2 = ✓ Raid = ........, well u know
I newed to work as a continuity editor...i spot ALL this stuff. Esp hair makeup and costume continuity...i can usually tell, in some episodes, what pieces were filmed before each other and which ones were re done over and over! I thrive on it!!!
😀Hah! The mind trick didn't count on my brain giving up and just focusing on the person in the gorilla suit strolling by! Can't mislead a mind with a broken train of thought!😁
I have OCD and I notice a lot more than the average person from my experience. I'm hyper fixated on detail and am very good at noticing inconsistencies. It's actually kinda cool and really helpful. My artist friend shows me all her art before she gives it to clients because if anything is slightly off, I'll notice. Update: I looked this up and this actually is a thing with scientific studies and everything! It's actually pretty neat.
I feel you. In my case it's not OCD but due to my work I had to "have an eye for detail", so I've somehow naturally become able to spot the tiniest detail, difference, oddity, just about anything about anything or anyone. Sometimes it's handy, most often it doubles my work (but not my payslip) :D
feel this...but im AuDHD. Being neurodivergent, our brains dont have that predictive filter and it is recognised that our brains process a LOT more sensory information than a neurotypical brain. My lovely ASD pattern recognition noticed the person in the gorilla suit, but as the test was task oriented, it wasnt the most important bit of information for me...and as far as my brain was concerned, the gorilla suit person was a separate task. Sensory overwhelm sucks tho.
I genuinely missed the gorilla trying to focus on the people to count the passes. I'm normally a really observant person, but damn, that got me. *Facepalm*
The fact that you're more observant was probably your downfall. Means you concentrated more on the task at hand and your brain worked harder to block out the black. Happened to me too, I subconsciously saw all the black around but it was 13 passes I believe. I'd also be willing to guess that those who didn't see the gorilla would've been able to answer how many passes
If they would do another study just the same but have the other people in red or something so the black stands out a bit. Im curious how many people would notice it then
When I was a young kid, it was hard to get my dad’s attention while he was reading the newspaper. I’d say, “Dad?” Then ask the question. When he wouldn’t answer, I’d say, “Dad?” Louder and louder. Eventually, I’d give up or I’d yell it loud enough, that he would answer. Then one time, again, while he was reading the newspaper, I couldn’t get his attention, I yelled, “Dad?” Then at the same time, did basically a drum roll with my hands at the newspaper from behind it. It startled him, he didn’t get mad …… However, I noticed from then on that he never completely ignored me, while he was reading the newspaper. I could then get his attention on the first try. I was 11 years old when I finally did that and he learned to “Hear me” on the first try. This was in 1976, BTW. He’s still alive and 95 yo, now. I’ll be seeing him today.
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Years ago I did a experiment with a step leading into a office, for a laugh! involving my works Managers. At the bottom of the step was a one inch high grate for scraping the bottom of your shoes. This grate therefore, reduced the height of the step by one inch. Due to the length of time this grate was in place everyone that used the step on a daily basis was use to it. But when I removed the grate, making the step one inch higher. Everyone going up the step would hit the top of the step causing a trip. After three months I put back the grate, once again reducing the step height by one inch. Because everyone had by now gotten use to the extra height they would now stumble, due to the missing one inch. It was so much fun watching the managers tripping and stumbling! Though as a punishment I was given car wash duty through the winter. But hey well worth it especially when they was showing visitors around haha! Great Vlog! - Fletch -
We use this video for training around aircraft maintenance - to show people how fallible we can be and we "miss" things. Many people don't see it until you point it out. You are focussed on the white shirts...don't see the gorilla because it's not important to the task you were given.
David G it does but I’ve gotta respect the grind I’m not sure if I would turn down their sponsorship the only harm done is people download a free game and don’t like it
I live in a wooded area across from a pasture. My kitten followed me out to the yard where I was doing a short task. I started walking back to the house and the kitten lingered, I looked up and saw a hawk gliding over my walnut tree and aiming at the kitten. I stepped back to the kitten and the hawk veered off and flew away. My mind turned the hawk into a harmless duck. That was a strange experience and the picture is still very clear in my mind, it happened over a year ago.
That channel is horrible. The often take their own taste or artistic view and tell you because it wasn't done the way they thought it should go is wrong. That and it's a goddamn movie. You don't have to pick it apart. Movie physics is much different than reality. Let it be and enjoy the show instead of taking out your calculus book.
@@parkerlawson3484 you must be fun at parties. As someone who can take criticism and *likes* criticism, i can say that it doesnt make a difference what they think. Many times they have criticized many movies that i actually love and adore. People need to not take these things close to the chest as if *they're* the ones being insulted or criticised. People also need to learn to not take things seriously, now one can say that should apply to the channel. But thats the *point* of their channel. Being able to write in ways you disagree with for the same of entertainment is being a great writer. But whether or not they do feel that way or not is irrelevant. I watch them because they're funny and i dont mind their criticism. Though i understand its not everyone's cup of tea
@@stickiedmin6508 seen them both. Cinema wins is okay but once again criticism makes for better jokes and cinema wins just seems like they're sucking up to the movies which in my opinions isnt very funny.
I noticed the gorilla, because I'm scared of big dark human shaped things. Hazey boi sorry u got offended but i actually meant shadow figures and stuff like that. I intentionally worded it like that because i thought itd be funny and not too serious but i guess not. Its fine tho 👍
14:15 - the Netherlands here, can confirm! Also, cyclists are practically immune to improper driving! Not because there isn’t a proper way of doing it, but rather: the cyclist basically has no boundaries of where it can and can’t drive. You learn very quickly to always look for them everywhere - most cyclists don’t even use their bell if they even have one at all!
Ha! I discovered this when I was nine years old. I discovered that if I did something unexpected and especially if I held still when they were looking at me, that I became invisible. I have continued to use invisibility to avoid some boring person I didn't want to talk to. etc.
Same! People who were actively looking for me to ask to do some boring chores, walked right past me, looking right at me and still not noticing me. Real-life ninja skills.
I think you are one of the most interesting narrators on RU-vid... For which I'm not surprised you have a large following. But.. 3 MILLION subscribers? That's phenomenal! Great going, you deserve it!
@@DeusVult87 No, just like in video, people exposed to gorillas see them easier. This...uuuh....thing.. is the same way... Person in america will never relax in the dark. Me? Im oblivious in my ignorance and (merited) fear of minorities after dark D:
@A long time ago we made it to paradise. Yeah hotter climates tend to not favor evolution into higher IQ. Colder climates only smartest survive. Hotter climates only healthiest survive, since hot climates are riddled with more deadlier deseises/parasites/animals.
My brain has seen the word "racist" misused so often it expects any sentence tthat contains it to be meaningless drivle and ignores it. (unless it's in quotation marks :-)
This reminds me how in high school I always loved to slide my text book across the ground to try and time it with someone's walking pattern. If I did it right it would go right under their foot right as their foot was going down, giving them the "step where their shouldn't be one" while walking up a set of stairs feeling.
When I noticed there was 2 basketballs being thrown around I thought it was too much trouble counting and saw the gorilla as soon as it entered the frame.
Thoughty2: "By the end of this video, you'll learn secrets about your brain that will change how you see the world forever. . . ." Me after video: "You know, I know this steak doesn't exist. I know that when I put it in my mouth the Matrix is telling my brain that it is juicy and delicious. After nine years, you know what I realize? Ignorance is bliss."
I had change blindness one time. I came in from work and walked in to the living room and clearly seen my TV and PlayStation. Then I sat down and grabbed the remote control and looked back up and both my TV and PlayStation were gone. I had gotten robbed.
When I'm driving I'm constantly going through all the worst things that can happen at every moment. Including all the things that could fail on my own car, and all the mistakes I could make in any situation. I still like driving.
