we rely on her eyes more than any other
sense to help us figure out the world
around us but just how much faith should
we put in our vision how many figures my
old enough welcome to watchmojo.com and
in facts about a fascinating topic in
today’s installment we’re counting down
the top 5 surprising facts that tell us
maybe we shouldn’t trust what we see
number five bad eyewitness testimony is
involved in 73 percent of exonerations I
hereby order Rubin Carter released from
prison that statistic comes from the
Innocence Project a us-based nonprofit
dedicated to getting innocent people out
of prison and it is by far the most
common feature of wrongful convictions
hundreds of studies have shown the
unreliability of eyewitnesses to crime I
may have been mistaken I got no more use
for this guy one study showed how
seniors are much worse at making an
accurate identification than college
stage students which makes sense bad
memory bad eyesight you know so as your
eyes have gotten more and more out of
whack as you’ve gotten older how many
different levels of thickness have you
got true but the study also found that
the seniors were more adamant and
confident about their mistakes other
studies have shown that prospective
jurors overestimate other people’s
abilities to make positive
identifications what do you think now do
you thinking of getting thicker glasses
number for children and adults literally
see things differently and this goes
beyond the so called generation gap or
how annoying dora the explorer’ is or is
not you said when i say abuela
scientists know that children under the
age of 12 do not combine the information
from their various senses combining this
information generally gives a more
accurate idea of what is around you more
recently researchers discovered that
children don’t combine their perspective
depth perception the kind you have using
just one eye with their sense of depth
using two eyes while this limits their
ability to perceive depth somewhat the
study also found that the children were
better at noticing slight differences
between objects viewed in monocular
versus binocular vision so in other
words adults may be better at seeing the
forest but children are somewhat better
at seeing the trees since you wonder
what else were seeing differently
number three we’re at least partially
blind to change how I got through 11th
grade how far did you go in school I
went all the way did you pick out the
continuity error there her quoi song
became a pancake don’t feel bad if you
missed it it’s because of change
blindness in order to shape the constant
flood of visual information it receives
into a coherent vision of the world our
brain uses a continuity field to merge
together similar objects within a
certain time frame so small changes to
those objects can easily get missed
sometimes even big changes get missed
one change blindness study in 2013 dared
to ask but what if you were drunk
researchers discovered that drunk people
and sober people were equally accurate
in finding small changes between two
images but the drunk people actually
found the changes faster it changes
everything
you can say that again the principle of
change deafness also applies to what we
hear number two what we are looking at
affects our moral compass of course our
eyes move is we try to make a decision
but a recently published study
demonstrated that what our gaze falls
upon in the moment we make a decision
has a big influence on the choice we
make in the experiment participants were
asked at the questions such as is murder
defensible by tracking the participants
eye movements and telling them when to
respond the researchers discovered that
58 percent of the time their answers
matched whichever response they were
looking at in that moment number one you
can’t even tell which way this lady is
spinning watch closely
are these dancers spinning clockwise or
counter clockwise most people will have
one very adamant answer watch for a few
more seconds and have their mind blown
when they suddenly see her spin in the
other direction the correct answer
they’re spinning both ways or rather
they’re spinning either way depending on
which way they’re facing
but the silhouettes are actually made in
such a way that they could be facing
either way some online quizzes say that
which way you see it spinning has to do
with your personality what researchers
have debunked that and instead assert
that it depends more on the angle you’re
seeing it from because graphs and
science so did the spinning lady
illusion blow your mind and did you
catch our little change deafness trick
for more glaringly obvious top 10s and
now you see it now you don’t top 5s be
sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com
you
sense to help us figure out the world
around us but just how much faith should
we put in our vision how many figures my
old enough welcome to watchmojo.com and
in facts about a fascinating topic in
today’s installment we’re counting down
the top 5 surprising facts that tell us
maybe we shouldn’t trust what we see
number five bad eyewitness testimony is
involved in 73 percent of exonerations I
hereby order Rubin Carter released from
prison that statistic comes from the
Innocence Project a us-based nonprofit
dedicated to getting innocent people out
of prison and it is by far the most
common feature of wrongful convictions
hundreds of studies have shown the
unreliability of eyewitnesses to crime I
may have been mistaken I got no more use
for this guy one study showed how
seniors are much worse at making an
accurate identification than college
stage students which makes sense bad
memory bad eyesight you know so as your
eyes have gotten more and more out of
whack as you’ve gotten older how many
different levels of thickness have you
got true but the study also found that
the seniors were more adamant and
confident about their mistakes other
studies have shown that prospective
jurors overestimate other people’s
abilities to make positive
identifications what do you think now do
you thinking of getting thicker glasses
number for children and adults literally
see things differently and this goes
beyond the so called generation gap or
how annoying dora the explorer’ is or is
not you said when i say abuela
scientists know that children under the
age of 12 do not combine the information
from their various senses combining this
information generally gives a more
accurate idea of what is around you more
recently researchers discovered that
children don’t combine their perspective
depth perception the kind you have using
just one eye with their sense of depth
using two eyes while this limits their
ability to perceive depth somewhat the
study also found that the children were
better at noticing slight differences
between objects viewed in monocular
versus binocular vision so in other
words adults may be better at seeing the
forest but children are somewhat better
at seeing the trees since you wonder
what else were seeing differently
number three we’re at least partially
blind to change how I got through 11th
grade how far did you go in school I
went all the way did you pick out the
continuity error there her quoi song
became a pancake don’t feel bad if you
missed it it’s because of change
blindness in order to shape the constant
flood of visual information it receives
into a coherent vision of the world our
brain uses a continuity field to merge
together similar objects within a
certain time frame so small changes to
those objects can easily get missed
sometimes even big changes get missed
one change blindness study in 2013 dared
to ask but what if you were drunk
researchers discovered that drunk people
and sober people were equally accurate
in finding small changes between two
images but the drunk people actually
found the changes faster it changes
everything
you can say that again the principle of
change deafness also applies to what we
hear number two what we are looking at
affects our moral compass of course our
eyes move is we try to make a decision
but a recently published study
demonstrated that what our gaze falls
upon in the moment we make a decision
has a big influence on the choice we
make in the experiment participants were
asked at the questions such as is murder
defensible by tracking the participants
eye movements and telling them when to
respond the researchers discovered that
58 percent of the time their answers
matched whichever response they were
looking at in that moment number one you
can’t even tell which way this lady is
spinning watch closely
are these dancers spinning clockwise or
counter clockwise most people will have
one very adamant answer watch for a few
more seconds and have their mind blown
when they suddenly see her spin in the
other direction the correct answer
they’re spinning both ways or rather
they’re spinning either way depending on
which way they’re facing
but the silhouettes are actually made in
such a way that they could be facing
either way some online quizzes say that
which way you see it spinning has to do
with your personality what researchers
have debunked that and instead assert
that it depends more on the angle you’re
seeing it from because graphs and
science so did the spinning lady
illusion blow your mind and did you
catch our little change deafness trick
for more glaringly obvious top 10s and
now you see it now you don’t top 5s be
sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com
you
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