171: The easiest person to fool is yourself (with Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris)
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How to Be an Invisible Gorilla
Daniel Treisman: I wanted to get a gorilla suit and camouflage netting over the back and actually go as the visit book gorilla. It turns out just nobody saw me, it's my famously unobtrusive presence was not actually not actually detected. The Bernie Madoff story, I don't think a lot of people have heard the thing with the speech that you remember, Mr Tanner? He says he liked the possibility grid that possibility grid that you introduced. But what was so interesting is this idea that even scientists can get fooled? Why do you think that happens? We're meant to be the smart ones.
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