A video is put on and at the beginning of this video you are told to count how many times people in white t-shirts pass the ball. When the scene ends, most people watching the video have a number in their heads. What these people missed was the walking gorilla because they were so focused on counting the number of passes between the white team. Would you have noticed the gorilla? According to Cathy Davidson this is called attention blindness. As stated by Davidson, “Attentional blindness is key to everything we do as individuals, from how we work in groups to what we value in our classrooms, at work, and in ourselves (Davidson, 2011, pg.4) ". Davidson served as vice provost for interdisciplinary studies at Duke University, helping to create the Information and Science Studies Program and the Cognitive Neuroscience Center. He also holds prestigious professorships in English and interdisciplinary studies at Duke and has written a dozen different books. At the end of the introduction Davidson asks five different questions to the general population. Davidson's questions include: "Where do our models of attention come from? How can what we know about attention help us change the way we teach and learn? How can the science of attention alter our ideas about how we test and What do we measure? How can we work better with others with different skills and expertise to see what we are missing in a complicated, interdependent world. How attention changes as we age, and how can understanding the science of attention actually help us along the way? Davidson, 2011, p.19-20)." While Davidson hits a lot of good points in Now You See It, overall the book isn't good. It doesn't exactly give the answers... half of the paper... book. She has provided many great ideas, however she neglects to provide plans for putting her ideas into practice, too many of the sources used are outdated and personal, and she is a hypocrite when it comes to her proponent of attentional blindness issues. Davidson's Now You See It was a good attempt to provide useful information about attentional blindness and where education is progressing today, but unfortunately it falls short. As he writes the book he loses sight of who his audience is, the general public, resulting in a poorly put together book. He could have written a much better book if he had omitted personal information, found better ways to connect with the reader, and made counterarguments to his opinions. As said before, she had good intentions and gave a good try, but in the end she didn't accomplish what she set out to do in the introduction.