I run out of the house and then usually around 3 o'clock somebody points out,

我冲出房间通常在大概下午三点时有人会说
in one case a homeless man, that I have a big glob of shaving cream in my ear or

某次是一个流浪汉说我耳朵上有一大块剃须膏
because I neglected to actually look in the mirror while I shaved.

因为我剃须时都没心思看镜子
Or I have once been to a party and I found my shirt was misaligned,

又一次我参加一个派对我发现我的衬衫上没穿正
seriously misaligned, not one button but--Anyway,

严重地没穿正不是一个扣子
so--and so I feel when this happens I'm very immature.

总之那时候我的感觉很不成熟
And I basically feel this is the end of the world,

我甚至感觉这是世界末日
this is humiliating and everybody notices. And so the question is,

这实在太丢脸而且每个人都注意到了问题是
how many people notice when something happens? And the spotlight effect--Well,

当这发生时有多少人真的注意到了呢焦点效应就是
before talking about my favorite experiment ever,

在讨论我最喜欢的实验之前
there is an episode of "The Simpsons"

我先播一段《辛普森一家》
that provides a beautiful illustration of the spotlight effect.

它充分说明了焦点效应