As an "unlucky" person, I can't help but wonder: what about an alternative version of the experiment where the newspaper contained the big "This newspaper has 43 photographs" text - followed by 44 photographs?
(This "unlucky" - or perhaps "paranoid" - mindset has, frankly, made me a damn good programmer and debugger.)
(This "unlucky" - or perhaps "paranoid" - mindset has, frankly, made me a damn good programmer and debugger.)