Their best-known experiment involved asking viewers to watch a brief video of people passing basketballs and to count the total number of times the players wearing white passed the ball.

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Paul, consider this: the number of tourists who travel to the Land of 10, 000 Lakes is nearly five times the total population of the state.

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