Friday, August 13, 2010

I told you so!!

Here's an opening lines of a review of The Invisible Gorilla:

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If there is one book that every human should read, it is The Invisible Gorilla, by Chris Chabris and Dan Simons.

I suppose that's a pretty bold statement to make. Let me explain. As a student of psychology, and as someone who studies and writes about the mind, I am overwhelmed with the general 
perception among the lay public that "social science findings often reaffirm or echo what common sense observations tell us." But the truth is that common sense observations often lead us astray. We have very little insight into the way our minds actually operate. And the thing is, this is likely a feature of the system, rather than a bug."
-Full review here

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