This is amazing.

tenri · Member Joined: 15 Sep 2003 Posts: 939 Location: Chicago IL

Try to read the paragraph below, then consider what It actually says. The brain is a wonderful thing isn't it?

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe and the biran fguiers it out aynawy. . WOW!

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Zahasha · Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2004 2:50 pm Post subject:

Being Dsylexic I find this VERY COOL!!
Thanks Tenri!! Very Happy

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ZigonZagoff · Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2004 3:32 pm Post subject:

Playing EQ and having to read when others are drunk makes this task so much easier.
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Geadiin · Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2004 3:40 pm Post subject:

I have seen that before. It's pretty amazing!

I remember an excercise that we did at a training class at work once. The class instructor handed out note cards to everyone in the room and said not to show anyone else their cards. They said to read the paragraphs on the cards and count the number of occurances of the "it" or something like that. Everyone assumed that their cards were all different.

Then they asked us to group ourselves by how many "its" we counted. It was interesting to see people split up into different groups, some with 9 "its", some with 10, some with less, etc. Then they asked us to swap cards with someone from a different group and recount the words. People came up with different numbers each time no matter how carefully you counted.

It turns out all of the cards were the same and we should have all counted the same number of occurances of the word. However because of different "filters", some people would some how miss a few of the words in the paragraphs. Your post reminded me of this excercise because it's amazing what our brain filters out or understands without looking at the text completely accurately.
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Jorlana · Member Joined: 24 Jul 2003 Posts: 820

Obviously, these researchers were hired by Steelfyst in order to con the masses into believing that he was actually training us for some cool science experiement! And on that note, has anyone heard from the little guy? I know he said he was going to be busy for a while, but I haven't seen him in a very long time now...
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