In Defence of the Developers
I have seen myself and other Developers I have worked with miss on obvious silly things - may be an obvious typo - or a mis programmed checkbox etc. Really obviously silly things which will make me kick myself ( or my pair ). Well here is psychology to the rescue. Invisible Gorilla A study was commissioned by a psychologist long back. He played a video of a basketball game between a team wearing white shirts and team wearing black shirts. The participants where asked to count the number of passes made by the white team. Most of the participants got the total number of passes correct. Here is the twist. In the middle of the game, a girl dressed in a gorilla suite, walks across the floor. And most of the participants who were busy counting the passes - totally missed it. When the video was played back to them they were shocked at how they could have missed the gorilla. The logic behind is that our brain operates in 2 modes - the Analytic mode and the Intuitive mode. Wh