Failure to see often stems from looking in the wrong place or faintness

Evidence

Sure enough, my score improved each time I was evaluated. But more than improvement, using the app became a rigorous reminder for me of the many ways it’s possible not to see something. I became fixated on the moments where I would know (intellectually) that there was something on the screen and that I couldn’t for the life of me see it, either because it was too faint or I was looking in the wrong place. — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 390

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the claim that failure to perceive is usually a placement problem, relevant to her critique of where our default attention is directed. — connects to: Ecology changes what the eye sees, disclosing depth Boone could not perceive — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac: With Other…, 609; Poor vision can stem from brain-based impairments trainable by apps — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the…, 388; Unattended stimuli often go completely unseen even when physically present — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the…, 391 (+8 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Ecology changes what the eye sees, disclosing depth Boone could not perceive — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac: With Other…, 609; Poor vision can stem from brain-based impairments trainable by apps — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the…, 388; Unattended stimuli often go completely unseen even when physically present — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the…, 391 (+8 more)