BenRoudenis.com » Unicycling Clown http://benroudenis.com Optimism is the best substitute for knowledge. Mon, 30 May 2011 16:56:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Cell Phone Users Fail To See Unicycling Clown http://benroudenis.com/technology/cell-phone-users-fail-to-see-unicycling-clown http://benroudenis.com/technology/cell-phone-users-fail-to-see-unicycling-clown#comments Wed, 21 Oct 2009 02:38:00 +0000 Benjamin Roudenis http://benroudenis.com/?p=177 Recently researchers decided to put the theory of “inattentional blindness” to the test: the unicycling clown test. They documented real-world examples of people who were so distracted by their cell phone use that they failed to see the bizarre occurrence of a unicycling clown passing them on the street.

I’m pretty sure I could be unconscious and I’d see a unicycling clown.

Distracted By A Cell Phone? Some Cell Phone Users Fail To See Unicycling Clown Passing Them [ScienceDaily]

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