The basket ball test
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008The brain works in mysterious ways…
Go to the following page and watch the video. There are two teams, with black or white t-shirts. They are throwing a basket-ball at each other. Can you count how many times the white team throws the ball? Count one each time the ball goes from somebody’s hands to somebody else’s hands.
http://viscog.beckman.uiuc.edu/grafs/demos/15.html
Got the right number? Check the answer here…
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I have the feeling the same thing sometimes happens when we’re debugging. The bug is obvious, litteraly in front of our eyes, but we don’t see it because we’re focused on other parts of the code, which we think must be the problem. I guess it’s +1 for pair programming.
And yes, that video fooled me big time 