Confidence in our perceptions does not always correlate with accuracy from "summary" of The Invisible Gorilla by Christopher Chabris,Daniel Simons
Consider this: have you ever been absolutely certain about something, only to later realize you were completely wrong? It happens to everyone. We rely on our perceptions to navigate the world around us, but those perceptions are not always accurate. In fact, our confidence in our perceptions does not always align with reality. In their book 'The Invisible Gorilla', Chabris and Simons explore the concept of perception and how it can be deceiving. They present a number of experiments that demonstrate how our minds can play tricks on us, leading us to believe we are seeing or experiencing something that is not actually there. One particularly famous experiment involved a group of people passing a basketball back and forth; while focused on counting the number of passes, most participants failed to notice a person in a gorilla suit walking th...
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