Daniel J. Simons

Christopher F. Chabris

The creators of the famous "gorilla experiment" that demonstrated people's inattention to obvious facts draw on hundreds of creative experiments to whimsically reveal how the human race overrates its mental capacity.

And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us

The Invisible Gorilla

Christopher Chabris

The Ig Nobel Prize in Psychology-winning creators of the famous "gorilla experiment" that demonstrated people's inattention to obvious facts draw on hundreds of creative experiments to whimsically reveal how the human race overrates its mental capacity.

John Elbing

Great - eye opening great - book on how we are victim of illusions of attention, memory, talent, knowledge, cause, potential in our everyday lives.

The title comes from the experiment where half of viewers (me included) miss a gorilla walking through a group of people ponding his chest... We don't notice nearly as much as we would like to believe.

Illusion of memory is particularly salient in trials where inocents are jailed based on eye-witness accounts, but it plagues our every memory.

We believe we know more than we do, and the less we know the more we think we know... giving us less chance of noticing the fact.

We confuse correlation with causation, especially when there is a timely sequence: what comes after must be caused by what comes before! The terrible example of associating autism with vacinations has caused avoidable sickness and even death...

You must read this book and take a step back from all your evryday illusions. Hard to fight, but it's a first step.

The Invisible Gorilla And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us

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