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I find this study to be slightly unfair - if you're a trained expert in detecting tumors, then your eyes are looking for undefined shadows and tumor-like growth

I find this study to be slightly unfair - if you're a trained expert in detecting tumors, then your eyes are looking for undefined shadows and tumor-like growth, not for gorillas. If looking for gorillas was their training then they'd spot it in a heartbeat. In the end, what is this trying to say? The paper says that the experts were better at detecting lung growths than the novices (thankfully), so all is well? Edit: Looking at the pictures, it's clear that they shortly hovered over the gorilla. Maybe there's a "The Emperor's New Clothes" effect here at work? No-one wanted to report the gorilla in fear of being made fun of?

CrLf 13y ago
The experts may be looking for tumors and not gorillas, but what if it wasn't a gorilla but also not a tumor? Imagine a doctor performing an ultrasound on a pregnant woman... A tumor may very well go unnoticed even if the doctor looks directly at it, just because he isn't looking for tumors.
- Pitarou 13y ago
  It happens all the time. I'm sure we can all think of a few "the doctors should have noticed it" anecdotes that happened in exactly that way.
Pitarou 13y ago
> Maybe there's a "The Emperors New Clothes" effect Possibly, but it would have to be at a subconscious level. They clearly didn't just pretend no to see the gorilla.