A Tale of Two Mice

How Seeing What We Expect to See Can Blind Us to the Truth

Patricia Brooks
Nov 1 · 7 min read

Oh crap. Did I break it? I thought as my heart sank.

Ten days after I purchased this sleek yet unusually shaped ergonomic mouse, I inadvertently knocked it off the desk and it went crashing onto the tile floor. BAM! The two triple-A batteries slid across the floor.

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Patricia Brooks

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