OK, I caught the gorilla the first time as he was leaving and it screwed up my pass count total because I took my eyes off the ball.
To be fair though, the gorilla is completely black and thus looks very similar to three of the participants, so I can see how a lot of people missed it.
I saw the gorilla the first time. I admit I didn’t see it immediately, but I definitely saw it when it stood in the middle. I can see how some people might not notice it though.
My mom was just telling me about a video like this that they had to watch in her class she’s taking this summer. She missed the gorilla, of course. I saw it.
I have to say that the two takes through the video that I was too busy watching the number of passes to notice the gorilla.
…I guess now I will never know how many passes there were.
Richard Wade
There seems to be one more manipulation in this experiment that nobody has yet commented on: Despite their promise to tell us how many passes there were, the video ends before they tell us. I say it was 15.
Oh, and I also counted 15 and didn’t notice the gorilla.
But then again, I didn’t notice the gender of the players in black either. It was not part of my task.
Someone Unimportant
I saw the gorilla the first time. I thought they put it in there to cause confusion, because I was looking at him and going, “What the hell?” 🙂
JohnS
I got 16 passes; towards the end I think I saw a very fast pass. Most of the passes are very slow and this one quick pass can throw someone off; it happens (I think) when one of the boys and the girl are lined up with the camera.
