Awareness Test

[SalingerNY]

Apologies if this has been posted elsewhere, but I saw a version of this in a lecture about a year ago, and it's pretty cool.

http://www.dothetest.co.uk/

Don't give the answer to the test away here without a spoiler!

[Sam18]

screamer

[SalingerNY]

screamer

You can suck it, cheese dick.

[shotz]

i watched this 3 times and still got the number wrong!

[Yankees13]

i watched this 3 times and still got the number wrong!

I got the number right the first time, but I was oblivious to the bear

[DrNick]

I got the number right the first time, but I was oblivious to the bear

Yea same here I got the number right

but not only did I not see the bear..I had to watch it a second time to see if there truly was a bear or if they were screwin with me

[NYYDragoon]

Wow. I feel totally owned.

[Tifoso]

Fricking amazing!

[Sam18]

ive seen similar videos like this one before where they show things that you're supposed to miss....and i STILL missed the friggin bear in this one. thats crazy, i was ignoring all the black shirts so the bear was absolutely invisible to me

its still a screamer

[YASS]

This is no surprise. The guy in the bear suit was conveniently dressed in the same color as the group of guys we're told not to watch. What do you expect? In order to make an accurate count, you have to focus on passes made by the guys in white to the exclusion of all else. They could have flown an F-16 through that crowd and you wouldn't have seen it.

[Tifoso]

This is true, of course, but did you guys

see the cat in the background? It's only there for about 0.3 seconds

[PalmerGA]

Very cool.

[SheffRocks11]

My psychology teacher showed this to our class. Pretty cool.

[SalingerNY]

This is no surprise. The guy in the bear suit was conveniently dressed in the same color as the group of guys we're told not to watch. What do you expect? In order to make an accurate count, you have to focus on passes made by the guys in white to the exclusion of all else. They could have flown an F-16 through that crowd and you wouldn't have seen it.

You'd like to think so, but I've seen other versions where the guy in the bear suit is dressed even more ridiculously and people still miss it. That's actually one of the points- that guy can be in a friggin clown suit and you wouldn't see him.

[YASS]

You'd like to think so, but I've seen other versions where the guy in the bear suit is dressed even more ridiculously and people still miss it. That's actually one of the points- that guy can be in a friggin clown suit and you wouldn't see him.

That's kind of what I meant. It's really more of a test of focus rather than a test of awareness. If an audience is asked to concentrate fully on one changing aspect of the video landscape, it's a testament to their success that they miss all the elephants dancing in pink tutus in the background outside their area of focus. They didn't fail to notice the bear - they succeeded in avoiding distraction when faced with many busy extraneous elements.