<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Jul 13, 2010, at 3:05 PM, Ben Zaiboc wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><blockquote type="cite">Try to observe and count the correct number of times the</blockquote><blockquote type="cite">people in white pass the basketball.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJG698U2Mvo">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJG698U2Mvo</a></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote>I'm afraid I don't see the point of this.<br>I guess I passed the selective attention test, getting the number of ball passes right and missing the gorilla.<br></div></blockquote><br></div><div>I think it shows the unreliability of eyewitness testimony. Before security cameras became common bank robbers had been know to put a bandaid on their nose, later people could describe the bandaid in great detail but not what the robber looked like. </div><div><br></div><div> John K Clark</div><br></body></html>