The Monkey Business Illusion

Daniel Simons · 16.3M views · 2010 · 1:42

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Why the open web links it

Demonstrates inattentional blindness through a famous visual illusion experiment.

Linked by 217 independent sites, 13 of them widely read in the 2026-10 crawl of the open web, including mit.edu, umn.edu, vice.com, livescience.com, cern.ch.