Awareness test

[Warren]

http://break.com/index/awareness-test.html

The test was produced by the British nanny state. But quite clever.

It is not one of those scare-you type things, nothing will jump out at you and it is safe for all ages.

If you've seen it already, don't be a spoiler. Thanks.

[Mabs2]

SPOILERS:
That wasn't the moonwalk.

[LadySmith]

I kind of passed. 

[Strings]

I got the count right, but missed the "extra"

 For anybody that rides (wether self-powered or motor-driven), this should scare you. The point of the exercise is to demonstrate that you don't see what you're not looking for. And most people don't look for cyclists...

[Headless Thompson Gunner]

I agree.  Most motorists aren't really looking for cyclists. 

I've found that motorist tend to see you better when you wear obnoxiously bright colors.  My dayglow neon yellow cycling jacket is like a car repelling force field.  Drivers give me a much wider berth when I wear it. 

If the bear had been wearing my jacket instead of black you would have noticed him immediately. 

[Manedwolf]

What some of this reminded me of was the game on Wii-Play where you have to quickly spot a given face in a milling crowd on a busy street, find the one walking the fastest in only a couple of seconds, or quickly choose the two, three or four people wearing exactly the same thing, etc. It gets surprisingly difficult!

[MechAg94]

If he wouldn't have said it was a suit, I doubt I would have realized that is what it was.  It looks just like a guy in black with a mask.  Since I was ignoring the guys in black, it figures.  I wasn't really watching the people in white either so much as that one ball.

If you are going to focus on one detail in a big crowd, you will miss other things in the crowd.