The Observer Effect: What It Is and Why It Matters

Transcript

you know when we pay attention to something we look at something we observe it we measure it it tends to change that thing yeah just because we're paying attention to it in physics uh there's something called the observer effect let's say you want to check the air pressure of a tire it's actually really difficult to do that without actually affecting the air pressure of the tire you know normally when you put the valve on the tire a little bit of air gets let out some escapes well that's called the observer effect I think you know this really does apply to everything if we look if we keep scoring and we actually you know people know we're looking as well you'll find other people tend to lift their game too