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he lost me at "how do i love thee" 

Then you missed the good stuff 

I kept expecting something on the stage to change to show a live example of the audience not noticing. 

I could listen to this guy forever.. very interesting and great f***in post. TED for the win. 

this is pretty cool, i've never been disappointed by a TED lecture 

I passed the ball test but failed the graveyard one. I guess I'm halfway observant? 

boring 

I have been spending too much time on the forums at Naughty Dog. I thought this was gonna be about the Situational Awareness booster in Uncharted 2: Among Thieves. Anyway, the talk itself was fascinating, as most TED Talks are... 

Mat the Wad said:

I passed the ball test but failed the graveyard one. I guess I'm halfway observant?

ditto 

It seems to me that they're testing different things. The gorilla isn't time-dependent, where the graveyard is. The latter kind of reminds me of the bit where we're bad at adapting to facts that change slowly, like the population of the Earth. 

these rat buttholes, they set up the number of passes in the basketball test as so important that i totally missed the damn thing 

A dozen posts in and not one TED-Basher has chimed in yet? Impressive. 

they don't give you much of a chance on the second one. it's not even fully appeared yet and he's asking if anyone has it, trying to prove his point early. then they cut to a farther shot.

but great, i'm a huge, embarrassing failure. THANKS DANIEL SIMMONS. 

IG88 said:

A dozen posts in and not one TED-Basher has chimed in yet? Impressive.

TED. a three letter word for MEH. 

Lets be clear here. Not TED. TEDx.

Also, 99% of the info he presents here is straight out of Perception Psychology, a 2nd year Psychology class. 

tedneedles said:

TED. a three letter word for MEH.

be quiet mehneedles. 

So THAT'S why I'm always nearly run over when I'm at a pedestrian cross-walk, I have the signal, and yet cars turning right don't even glance at me. They're not expecting me!

Also they're f**kwits.

On the bright side, I guess now I can rationalize their obliviousness instead of getting upset. That would also explain the surprised looks I get when I hit the sides of their cars and yell at them. 

don't step into the street assuming any driver is looking for you. i don't trust these nuts in l.a. as far as i could throw them. 

With so many invisible gorillas around I'm afraid to leave my house anymore! 

I just want you to know...I notice you... But I'm the one in the ton of steel, so, y'know...I win 

Look at your man, now back at me, now back at your man, now back at me..

ladies.. did you see the gorilla? fantastic..

Swan dive.. into the best night of your life.. 

I am more worried about the angry gorilla 

This was very intriguing. I knew this to some extent, but it seems to run much deeper than what I thought. I love these interesting TED, TEDx presentations.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8o-u0RFtyGY

What they mean is..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_M2Lf8D2oM [18+] 

Killabandaid said:

This was very intriguing. I knew this to some extent, but it seems to run much deeper than what I thought. I love these interesting TED, TEDx presentations.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8o-u0RFtyGY

What they mean is..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_M2Lf8D2oM [18+]

Everyone was flabbergasted they censored those nude bits 

I totally saw the gorilla.

Also, I always see motorcycles, pedestrians, cats, etc. 

Malicestar said:

Lets be clear here. Not TED. TEDx.

Also, 99% of the info he presents here is straight out of Perception Psychology, a 2nd year Psychology class.

Where do you think that 2nd year class got the info originally? Daniel effing Simons, that's where. 

i watched that video 4 times and never saw a gorilla 

The way I practice awareness is by being skeptical but not paranoid, assuming something bad can happen at any given time BUT LIKELY WON'T, which is why you need to be aware: those moments that 'get us' are the ones we never see coming and are rarities in anyone's life.

I won't even listen to the radio when I drive; I don't need distractions.

I also do this exercise: Anytime you go anywhere, no matter how familiar, try to spot something you have ever noticed before. This exercise becomes interesting when you are in a very familiar place, you find yourself taking in every detail in search of that something. I do not do this when I drive. 

I would totally fail that door test. I hardly ever commit strangers to memory. 

The door test impressed me, mostly because it looks like a sketch from Monty Python. 

thunderdan said:

i watched that video 4 times and never saw a gorilla

hahaha 

Blue Wolf 63 said:

be quiet mehneedles.

point taken. :P 

DREW ALMIGHTY said:

I would totally fail that door test. I hardly ever commit strangers to memory.

Me too. Even if I try. This was a problem when I worked retail... if I was helping a customer, then had to go to the back to look at something, and that customer had wandered off from where I left them by the time I got back, I would not be able to find them again because I wouldn't recognize them. 

tallscot75 said:

So THAT'S why I'm always nearly run over when I'm at a pedestrian cross-walk, I have the signal, and yet cars turning right don't even glance at me. They're not expecting me!

heh, i'm generally pretty good at noticing pedestrians but i almost ran my sister over the other day. i was dropping her off at the bus terminal early in the morning without much sleep.

i knew where she was, but I keep expecting her to walk in another direction. i ease off the brake (mistake one) letting the car creep. then as i'm about to hit the throttle, I notice her starting to cross. i go for the brake but still manage to hit the throttle (mistake two) getting a nice rev out of the engine and had to do a double take on the brake. fortunately no harm done. 

RogueStar said:

i almost ran my sister over the other day.

Is there such thing as a physical Freudian slip? 

DREW ALMIGHTY said:

I would totally fail that door test. I hardly ever commit strangers to memory.

Same with me. In restaurants where all waitresses wear the same thing, I can never find mine to flag down if I need something, even after the 2nd or 3rd time she's been to the table. I have to hope for a male waiter or some bizarre looking waitress so they stand out. 

RogueStar said:

i almost ran my sister over the other day.

tallscot75 said:

Is there such thing as a physical Freudian slip?

You mean when you try and do one thing, and instead do your mother? 

We use this video in our training classes at work. Casino employee's really have to watch out for those gorilla's after all.