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perception
You believe you are more observant than you are.
A 1998 study found that a significant portion of observers failed to detect changes in a person during a real-world interaction when their attention was occupied.
Change the word 'consistently' to 'frequently' or specify that nearly half of participants missed the change.
Your mind ignores what it does not explicitly track.
Where this comes from
- Study
- Simons and Levin (1998)
- What the check found
- While the study exists and demonstrates change blindness, the term 'consistently' exaggerates the failure rate, which was less than 50% in the original trial.
- Confidence
- Solid, with limits
Related
One of these every day, and every one names the study it came from. When a finding is contested, it says so.