2.5 Reading: Basketball Video

The Monkey Business Illusion Count how many times the players wearing white pass the ball. (Watch the video) The correct answer is sixteen passes. Did you spot the gorilla? For people who haven't seen or heard about a video like this before, about half miss the gorilla.

If you knew about the gorilla, you probably saw it. But did you notice the curtain changing color or the player on the black team leaving the game? Let's rewind and watch it again. (Watch the video) Here comes the gorilla.

And there goes a player and the curtain is changing from red to gold. When you're looking for a gorilla, you often miss other unexpected events. And that's the monkey business illusion. Learn more about this illusion and the original gorilla experiment at theinvisiblegorilla.com.