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Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons, in their book The Invisible Gorilla, show how people watching a video of a basketball game, when diverted with attention-absorbing details such as counting passes, can completely miss a gorilla stepping into the middle of the court.
— Nassim Taleb
2012-11-27 in Antifragile
The illusion of attention is one of the most important, surprising, and least known flaws in human thinking. This lucid book examines it in detail.
— Nassim Taleb
2011-06-07 on amazon.com