My dad just showed this to me. It's a test of one's ability to concentrate on lots of motion.

Here

As you watch the video try and count the number of passes the people make during their little game.

Post how many passes you count. I'll post the correct number after a couple of replies.

23 passes and one gorilla

I counted 26 passes but couldn't completly tell because the video kept freezeing up.

31 or 32 or something

edit: watched it a second time and got 29

30.

27

none, it wouldn't load

25, but not sure. The colors of the clothes are bothering me.

31 or so?

31

I didn't even count. I just sat back and enjoyed the gorilla.

I got 28.

THre three people in black, the three in jeans and white t-shirt and the gorilla are set up that way to throw you off.

I got it. 33.

32.

hint: The people in the white only pass to people in the white, same with the black.

Well apparently my java isn't working (help?), but this is so weird because I read about this today. I read the first post and thought "it's that thing with the gorilla". According to New Scientist, 40 per cent of viewers fail to spot it when they're counting, but if they're asked to watch the game normally, they all see it immediately.

I got 30 the first time 29 the second.....and a gorilla both times

33... I don't get the gorilla.

33...didn't catch the white/black thing, or the gorilla

Here are my obsevations after 4 tries:



It is interesting, to see how each time my number went up slightly. I also reckon it is somewhere in the late twenties since my average sightings seems to be there. I may have missed quite a few thiugh, and I may have added some. I don't think I did very well, but at leasr I saw the gorilla everytime! :p

32

It's 33. Watch it twice, once for the black team ball and once fo the white team ball. Add them together.

And I, master of stuff, figured it out first.

Yes you did, and I confirmed it.

Dude, I rock.

Actually, Maevie got it right. It has nothing to do with how many times the ball was passed; that's just to get you concentrating on something else so you won't see the guy in the gorilla suit walk right throught the middle of the scene. The effect is called "Inattentional Blindness" and this was a study done on it.

Like maevie said, if you get people concentrating on the balls many of them will miss the extremely obvious gorilla. Quite cool.

This site has a bunch of videos on different types of "Change blindess". Watch the videos and read the explanations. It will scare you.

(This one is particularly cool. All you need to know is that the construction worker has asked the woman for directions.)

That was hilarious. I'll admit that if I was watching it normally, I may not have noticed, but since I was looking for something odd, I saw it straightaway and just thought "how on earth could someone not notice that?!"

They say on the index that in the experiment they were asking college students and older people. When they approached student subjects with student looking people, the percentage of people that noticed was quite high, but when they approached older people with student-type people, the percentage of people that noticed was low.

Then they started to use construction workers instead of student-type people and the percentage of people that noticed fell almost to 0.

Think about that.