Awareness Test | Selective Attention Test | Invisible Gorilla Style Test

[someguy1728]

The point of this was...?

[omalor]

9 people are divorced

[serpfire]

Um, this website is utter bullshit. It's an ad trying to capitalize on the selective attention craze. First of all, the words in red "healthy marriage". Second, the pictures were flashing at regular intervals. The invisible gorilla was credible. This is pure marketing.

[playwithvideo]

@serpfire Of course this has a marketing element to it. So does the original. For the guy who put up the original gorilla video, how many more books do you think he has sold as a result of his video going viral? Marketing is not a dirty word. Without marketing of some form, almost all the free stuff you see on the Internet would not exist. Youtube itself exists in its current form because they are able to raise money through marketing.

[playwithvideo]

@serpfire How do you think YouTube pays its bills. It through advertising. While most people never stop to think about this, YouTube is just one big advertising company that happens to attract people to its ads by providing free videos. So the quality of the video is not undermined because it has a marketing element. Its quality depends on whether or not the claimed effect is absent or present. Clearly many people who view the video experience the same effect as the gorilla one.

[playwithvideo]

@serpfire Thanks for bringing up the topic so I had the opportunity to explain all of this.

[SushiJelly]

I totally saw the Gorilla. But I only counted 12 passes. O.o

[emy601000]

It has to do with focusing on one task so you do not see random information.

[Heowa]

I was actually aware of the background AND counted 11 words...

[playwithvideo]

@Heowa That's awsome!. Based on comments I've seen on other tests like this I have gotten the impression that some people have absolutely no problem seeing the "other" stuff while other people have a hard time. In the famous version of this test where the gorilla walks through the group of people throwing the balls, one commenter indicated he had trouble seeing the gorilla even after knowing about it -- he had to rewatch multiple times.

[Heowa]

@playwithvideo In my opinion, that's really strange...I knew the gorilla test before, but unfortunately, I knew it through a website that already said something about an "invisible gorilla" before the test actually started off...so I knew right from the start what I was supposed to see (or not see). So I showed it to my father, who immediately saw the gorilla as well. But he also knew it was a selective attention test before trying, so maybe that was the reason. However, both of us couldn't

[Heowa]

@Heowa imagine people wouldn't see the gorilla...maybe it's just our brains being good at this particular aspect, I mean, everybody's different. I'd really like to know if I'd also see those things if I didn't know it was a selective attention test and there was something hidden that you wouldn't expect. Then again, it's kinda impossible to test yourself and don't know what's going on at the same time...

[playwithvideo]

@Heowa I think it's related to the different way different people's brains specialize for different types of skills, either naturally or through training. My son, who was aware I was making this video and vaguely knew what it was all about, took the test and noticed only one "other" thing. When I mentioned the rest, he remembered seeing another, vaguely remembered thinking about the other, and missed the other (or something along these lines). Fascinating stuff.

[Heowa]

@playwithvideo Indeed, I love to discover and try things like that, I agree it's fascinating to see what our brains can (or can't) do...

[melodel2]

@Heowa I saw 11 words and saw the backgrounds too..is this rare? Was the point of this just to promote awareness that marriages can be saved? What is this talk about the gorilla?

[Heowa]

@melodel2 There's a similar test, it can also be found here on youtube. But if you already know that it has something to do with a gorilla, I guess it won't work for you anymore...