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Or we go like that, and we imagine that's what blindness is about.
So this is the effect we call "choice blindness."
So, if you didn't know that this person just took part in a choice blindness experiment, I don't think you would question that this is the true attitude of that person.
We can ask ourselves, what is justice, and is justice blind, or is justice blindness?
I call this error blindness.
In many forms of blindness, like retinitis pigmentosa or macular degeneration, the photoreceptor cells have atrophied or been destroyed.
These different mice are different mutations that recapitulate different kinds of blindness that affect humans.
My data indicates I've got about average risk for developing macular degeneration, a kind of blindness.
It's the development of a prosthetic device for treating blindness.
There are 10 million people in the U.S. and many more worldwide who are blind or are facing blindness due to diseases of the retina, diseases like macular degeneration, and there's little that can be done for them.
Well, I was born with a rare visual condition called achromatopsia, which is total color blindness, so I've never seen color, and I don't know what color looks like, because I come from a grayscale world.
The second thing is that due to the unique sensory abilities of this mammal, if we study this mammal, we're going to get great insight into our diseases of the senses, such as blindness and deafness.
We're looking at blindness.
So blindness is a big problem, and a lot of these blind disorders come from inherited diseases, so we want to try and better understand which mutations in the gene cause the disease.
So what we've been doing in my lab is looking at these unique sensory specialists, the bats, and we have looked at genes that cause blindness when there's a defect in them, genes that cause deafness when there's a defect in them, and now we can predict which sites are most likely to cause disease.
Politics has come to resemble a cynical team game played by politicians, while the public has been pushed aside as if sitting on the seats of a stadium in which passion for politics is gradually making room for blindness and desperation.
He became an effective altruist when he calculated that with the money that he was likely to earn throughout his career, an academic career, he could give enough to cure 80,000 people of blindness in developing countries and still have enough left for a perfectly adequate standard of living.
You could provide one guide dog for one blind American, or you could cure between 400 and 2,000 people of blindness.
The developing world bug, trachoma, causes blindness.
It was willful blindness.
Willful blindness is a legal concept which means, if there's information that you could know and you should know but you somehow manage not to know, the law deems that you're willfully blind.
There's a lot of willful blindness around these days.
You can see willful blindness in banks, when thousands of people sold mortgages to people who couldn't afford them.
You can see willful blindness in the Catholic Church, where decades of child abuse went ignored.
You could see willful blindness in the run-up to the Iraq War.
Willful blindness exists on epic scales like those, and it also exists on very small scales, in people's families, in people's homes and communities, and particularly in organizations and institutions.
Companies that have been studied for willful blindness can be asked questions like, "Are there issues at work that people are afraid to raise?"
It's a lot of blindness.
I was born premature by about 10 weeks, which resulted in my blindness, some 64 years ago.
Rosalie had developed a condition known as Charles Bonnet Syndrome, in which patients with either impaired vision or total blindness suddenly hallucinate whole scenes in vivid color.
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