Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Sun, 02 Aug 2009 21:54:23 -0700, Patrick Elliott wrote:
> 
>> Instinctive certainties, however, are wrong more than half the time.
> 
> Citation?
> 
Uh.. Such numbers are also made up and wrong, more than half the time? lol

Seriously though, I don't know the actual number, or have a cite, but I 
*have* seen cases dealing with cognition, where you can not only get 
50-50 fails, but even 99% failures. One of the best examples is the, 
"two people with a big sign walking rudely between two people talking.", 
experiment they run, yearly, at some colleges, for their psychology 
experiments. The one where they replace the person asking the question 
of some random person with someone the wrong height, dressed wrong, in 
clothing some **totally** different color, or even the wrong gender, and 
like 90% of the people being "asked", never notice the substitution. The 
brain just starts over where it was interrupted, so long as the 
conversation "seems" to be the same, and ignore **everything** else. The 
replacement could probably be standing their nude and the only reaction 
you would get was, "Damn, I didn't realize when you came up that you 
where nude.", not, "Where the hell did the original person I was talking 
to go?"

The ease by which the mind can be tricked is actually quite scary.

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