Some of you may have seen this before, but I found it quite interesting in testing observation skills

On the link there is a video.

There are two teams consisting of three players each.

One team in white shirts & one in black.

Each have a basketball.

Count how many times in the clip, that the WHITE team pass the ball from one player's hands to another player's hands. It doesn't count if during the pass the ball touches the ground (only hand to hand)."

movie 15

Try it and if you've seen it already, please don't give the answer away.

Chris

watched it once, counted 11

watched it once, counted 11

I got 12...

I got 12.

I got 12.

Same here

i was close then, not bad for one go

I think I counted 12 too. What's more interesting is did anyone spot the gorilla?

Chris

I think I counted 12 too. What's more interesting is did anyone spot the gorilla?

Chris

Lol, only now that you mentioned it! I was too busy counting

rofl, thought it got busy for a while but never saw that, hey ho just goes to show why you should not get tuneel vision while driving.

I spotted the gorilla. Also I think the black team changed members. And I think it might have been 13 - at one point there were two white players close together on the left hand side and I'm not sure if they passed the ball between them or not.

I counted 13, didn't see any gorilla (till you mentioned it). How bizarre.

Does this show that you tend not to see things you're not looking for?

Does this show that you tend not to see things you're not looking for?

I have no idea, but I'd guess it's highlighting how easy it is to get tunnel vision and not look at the full picture..... Obviously, it might mean something completely different

Chris

i counted 14 and a gorilla

lol !

I counted 11 and completely missed the Gorilla until the second time through :eek:

i only got the gorilla as he got in the way of the ball

I couldn't count any nor spot a gorilla as my java environment variable :confused: failed to load.

I will say that we have two types of awareness, spotlight & floodlight (of course, there's a third - unawareness) and when we set ourselves a task, e.g. counting white passes, we ignore the floodlight even though our brain registers it.

Whilst driving, our spotlight is on how the car is handling, what speed we're going, what gear that next bend is going to need, will those lights change etc. and our floodlight is on other traffic, pedestrians, passengers & the general environment.

If we'd watched the video without having to concentrate on one minor aspect of it, we'd have seen the gorilla, the number of black players etc. yet missed how many passes there were (other than unconsciously possibly).

This is why using a mobile phone whilst driving is dangerous, it transfers our floodlight awareness away from the environment so we're less aware of other road users - unless you're like my stupid friend who put his car in a hedge whilst trying to text someone & drive at the same time :eek::thumbdwn:

We need both the spotlight & floodlight awarenesses to be actively engaged in driving to be both skillful & safe

:iagree: - In fact, that's where commentary driving scores I think. It keeps you aware fo the fact that you should be moving your vision around.

:iagree: - In fact, that's where commentary driving scores I think. It keeps you aware fo the fact that you should be moving your vision around.

Yep - or it shows to your passenger that you're not

Chris

Yep - or it shows to your passenger that you're not

Chris

I've actually been using it on solo drives, and it really does help me being more aware of when I stop looking where I can instead of "just a wee bit down the road".

TBH I don't really even like passengers talking to me when I'm driving. I'll give the commentary business a go (but not on my pushbike, which is more likely to be just swearing at the gears :lol:)

If you want to see a comprehensive example of how to build a commentary up, this DVD is worth a look

http://www.briskoda.net/forums/racing-advanced-driving-techniques/ultimate-driving-craft/94607/

Chris

I found a 35 minute running commentary in 4 parts on youtube and watched that. Interesting that he only took one right hand cross-traffic turn in the whole 35 and that was at the end. Good job I understand Scots English too

There's one police commentary driving video I found and he's very good