How to pronounce“chabris”in English

Chris Chabris: The curtains changed from red to yellow.

Chris Chabris: One of the people in the black shirts left, that's correct.

Chris Chabris: It's a one million dollar bill, correct?

Chris Chabris: They would probably laugh at you and they probably wouldn't cash it for you, right?

Chris Chabris: Oh, you mean you think because it's started out as a simple-looking line drawing, that that maybe made them do it worse than they would have otherwise?

Chris Chabris: Oh, well I don't think they were told to like, make a mechanical drawing version of it.

Chris Chabris: OK, how about the guy at the mic first?

Chris Chabris: Yeah, that's a really good question.

Chris Chabris: What's in their head with what's out in the world?

Chris Chabris: Thanks.

Chris Chabris: Mm-hmm.

Chris Chabris: I haven't seen the videos you're talking about, but I suspect what's going on there is that if you distract the people in certain ways from what you're doing,

Chris Chabris: but in a way, a lot of what mentalists do and magicians, of course, is manipulate your attention.

Chris Chabris: Mm-hmm.

Chris Chabris: Well, we didn't test a three divorce hypothesis.

Chris Chabris: Well, that's certainly possible and sometimes when I get angry at a customer service person, it helps a little bit.

Chris Chabris: Could be.

Chris Chabris: Thank you.

Chris Chabris: Right.

Chris Chabris: Mm-hmm.

Chris Chabris: Right.

Chris Chabris: Right.

Chris Chabris: Right, so this is an excellent question.

Chris Chabris: She gets to ask one cause she got the million-dollar bill.

Chris Chabris: Well, the answer, the answer is for these kinds of experiments generally, no.

Chris Chabris: Thank you.

As my colleague Christopher Chabris says, we've outsourced to Google a massive volume of research chores that used to take anywhere from minutes

presenter: Chris Chabris: The million-dollar question was coming, though.

Chris Chabris: Excuse me?

Chris Chabris: The lady with an umbrella, right.

Chris Chabris: 16.

Chris Chabris: Jessica.

Chris Chabris: OK.

Chris Chabris: You're very observant.

Chris Chabris: Who's next?

Chris Chabris: Yeah, that's a possible explanation and I like that you called it the million-dollar bill experiment cause we didn't actually do an experiment with million-dollar bills.

Two researchers, Daniel Simons and Chris Chabris, who some of you are familiar with because of their gorilla, the invisible gorilla exercise that they were very well known

by a Nobel Prize winner, Chris Chabris, for today's talk.

of somebody whose perception of their skill at deceiving was far off from their actual skill and they-- Chris Chabris: Or for his skill at crime, yeah.

audience #7: Or maybe in the last example, like facts with some, I don't know, deep understanding or-- Chris Chabris: Yeah, essentially yes -- that the easier it is to access information the