Can you spot the difference?

Do you pay close attention to detail?

We may think we’re pretty observant, but most of us suffer from what’s, in effect, a blind spot. It’s not an area of vision we can’t see — it’s just that we tend to miss changes in what we’re looking at and paying attention to. It’s called “change blindness,” and it’s just the way our minds work.  The New York Times defined it as “the frequent inability of our visual system to detect alterations to something staring us straight in the face.” Psychologists have been trying to understand the phenomenon since the early 2000s.

Take this test to see if you can spot the difference.

This test was given to 22,000 people across the globe and it turns out, at least according to the test, people in Atlanta pay the most attention to detail. Atlantans found 3.13 of the 5 differences, beating out Charlotte (3.12), Denver (3.05), Chicago (2.94) and Boston (2.83).

The average score was 2.63, see if you can beat it.

Only 15% of test-takers found all five.

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