Barnaby Wilde
Keep your airspeed up!
- Joined
- Mar 2, 2003
- Location
- Castro Valley
- Moto(s)
- ‘14 Triumph Tiger 800XC, '99 Suz DR650, '80 Citabria 7ECA
Hi Guys,
I am reading a book titled, "The Invisible Gorilla", by Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons. The book is about how our brains limit our ability to see or hear events, and carries on on how memory is also quite fallible.
The "invisible gorilla" refers to a psychological experiment where a person with a gorilla suit is able to enter a scene of a videoed basketball "game", and half the people who view the video (given the task to count passes) do not even see/notice the appearance. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJG698U2Mvo
The writers devote several pages on the issue of why car drivers turn into motorcycles (and bicyclist/pedestrians...). Basically, the drivers have "inattentive blindness" and do not see motorcyclists, even when you have your headlights on or are wearing bright clothing. You have become the "invisible gorilla"...
Interesting reading, and quite thought provoking. As motorcyclists, you cannot make any assumptions that you have been seen.
Harry
I am reading a book titled, "The Invisible Gorilla", by Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons. The book is about how our brains limit our ability to see or hear events, and carries on on how memory is also quite fallible.
The "invisible gorilla" refers to a psychological experiment where a person with a gorilla suit is able to enter a scene of a videoed basketball "game", and half the people who view the video (given the task to count passes) do not even see/notice the appearance. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJG698U2Mvo
The writers devote several pages on the issue of why car drivers turn into motorcycles (and bicyclist/pedestrians...). Basically, the drivers have "inattentive blindness" and do not see motorcyclists, even when you have your headlights on or are wearing bright clothing. You have become the "invisible gorilla"...
Interesting reading, and quite thought provoking. As motorcyclists, you cannot make any assumptions that you have been seen.
Harry
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