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varun5
Mar 15, 2008 4:30 am
Posts: 38
Awareness Test
A friend recently passed this on to me.
http://dothetest.co.uk/
Has anyone seen it?
post yr results here
I counted 12 but saw "it" too.
Kordite
Mar 17, 2008 2:43 pm
Posts: 163
RE: Awareness Test
I successfully counted all the passes but completely missed what I was "supposed" to see. Everyone I showed it to had the same reaction when asked the real question. . . "WHAT?" When the film showed the the sequence the second time, they refused to believe that it was the same as the first time. When I played it again, sure enough, identical.
However, this is not new. This experiment was done previously by Daniel Simons & Christopher Chabris in 1999. In fact, I've been hearing some noise that the ad company at DoTheTest did not ask permission to use essentially the same concept and there are calls for legal action. I'm not sure that the techniques of a scientific experiment can be copywritten in such a way as to prevent a similar film from being made for activist purposes but some lawyer will probably think so and try to move foreward towards a payday.
You can read more about the original experiment and find links to the original video here
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=490946
rachelle
Mar 21, 2008 7:44 pm
Posts: 18
RE: Awareness Test
is there ever anything like this on tv here?? because that would be awesome.
(i totally missed the dancing bear by the way)
erok
Mar 25, 2008 10:45 am
Posts: 945
RE: Awareness Test
i didn't see it the first time. neither did my mom when i sent her the link
Renny
Apr 11, 2008 8:22 am
Posts: 16
RE: Awareness Test
I didn't either. Would we see the bear if it were wearing an ANSI yellow vest?
