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Subject: Man in gorilla suit
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Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2004 14:47:51 -0400
From: Mark Jason Dominus <mjd@plover.com>


Your web page describing the 2004 Ig Nobel awards says, in part:

        Daniel Simons of the University of Illinois at
        Urbana-Champaign and Christopher Chabris of Harvard
        University, for demonstrating that when people pay close
        attention to something, it's all too easy to overlook anything
        else -- even a man in a gorilla suit.

                (http://www.improb.com/ig/ig-pastwinners.html#ig2004)

However, the Simons - Chabris paper credits the gorilla as being named
"Elisa Cheng", which suggests that it is not a man in a gorilla suit
at all, but a woman.

Scientifically yours,

Mark Dominus