Looks can be deceiving (when it comes to design)

[TheLurch]

Yes - AMAZING how badly people "remember" details in such --- in our seminar, they had a clown unexpectedly run through the room while a simulated robbery was taking place at the front --- then the written test on what you saw. The clown was described in pretty good detail.

These are the sorts of things i am terrible at. I can focus on only one thing at a time - while i'm great at ignoring distractions, i don't notice anything outside that item. Means i can get work done on my laptop on the subway, but i'm also prone to working right along as the train rolls past my stop.

[rogue06]

These are the sorts of things i am terrible at. I can focus on only one thing at a time - while i'm great at ignoring distractions, i don't notice anything outside that item. Means i can get work done on my laptop on the subway, but i'm also prone to working right along as the train rolls past my stop.

Are you familiar with that passing the ball test?

[TheLurch]

Are you familiar with that passing the ball test?

Yes, but i've never seen it in a context where i didn't know what was coming, so i don't know how i'd really respond to it.

[rogue06]

Yes, but i've never seen it in a context where i didn't know what was coming, so i don't know how i'd really respond to it.

I pride myself on how observant I usually am. I'm the one who instantly notices when someone is wearing something new or got a haircut. I'm the one who quickly spots when something is out of place.

But when I first took this test something like a decade ago, I didn't believe that there was a gorilla anywhere in that video. Full of doubt I immediately "rewound" it and was more than a little chagrined to see the #@%$@ thing stroll right through them and even stop and beat its chest when it was in the middle. It was a rather humbling experience.

[Cow Poke]

Yes, but i've never seen it in a context where i didn't know what was coming, so i don't know how i'd really respond to it.

EGGzackly - you know the Gorilla is about to make an entrance, so you're watching for it.

[TheLurch]

I pride myself on how observant I usually am. I'm the one who instantly notices when someone is wearing something new or got a haircut. I'm the one who quickly spots when something is out of place.

But when I first took this test something like a decade ago, I didn't believe that there was a gorilla anywhere in that video. Full of doubt I immediately "rewound" it and was more than a little chagrined to see the #@%$@ thing stroll right through them and even stop and beat its chest when it was in the middle. It was a rather humbling experience.

Always disappointing to find out we're typically human, with all the flaws that come with that, isn't it?

[lee_merrill]

Please go back and reread the title of the thread you started about it, and the bit of text you wrote to introduce it. You will find the narrative you're trying to construct now that you've being called on it is completely false.

Not completely false, changing the origin of bilaterians does not substantially affect the point that new genes are likely required for the Cambrian explosion. As I recall, you stated not too long ago that no new genes were required for the Cambrian explosion, just changes to regulatory DNA.

Blessings,
Lee

[TheLurch]

Not completely false, changing the origin of bilaterians does not substantially affect the point that new genes are likely required for the Cambrian explosion.

Then why post a paper about the genes needed for their origin? Yes, there may be an argument about how many new genes are required for the Cambrian explosion. But here's the thing: neither you nor the post you linked to made that argument. You're only making it now because you were called out for your error.

And once again, i'm left thinking less of you because you won't just admit a mistake and continue to try to pretend it wasn't one.

As I recall, you stated not too long ago that no new genes were required for the Cambrian explosion, just changes to regulatory DNA.

You don't recall; you imagine.

[rogue06]

EGGzackly - you know the Gorilla is about to make an entrance, so you're watching for it.

If you're aware of what's about to happen you can't help but notice it. They need to make a "same thing only different" test.

[shunyadragon]

No foolin! Which is why I began my post with "unrelated..."

Then . . . 'What's your point?'

[TheLurch]

Then . . . 'What's your point?'

We can have a bit more fun by ignoring Lee for a while and having a conversation about something that's actually interesting and real.

[rogue06]

We can have a bit more fun by ignoring Lee for a while and having a conversation about something that's actually interesting and real.

[Cow Poke]

Then . . . 'What's your point?'

Civil conversation with a friend with whom I probably have very little in common, but I respect him.

You obviously know very little, if anything, about that.

[shunyadragon]

Civil conversation with a friend with whom I probably have very little in common, but I respect him.

You obviously know very little, if anything, about that.

Huh?!?!?!?