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Aaron LeClair

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Something I refound. I've came across this sort of thing before. I don't think the 55/100 remark is correct. I learned most people who can read the language can easily read what is below. Below is a copy of it.


To my 'selected'
strange-minded friends:

If you can read the
following paragraph, forward it on to your friends and the person that sent it
to you with 'yes' in the subject line.


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<HR align=center width="100%" SIZE=2>​
​


Only great minds can read
this
This is weird, but
interesting!

if yuo cna
raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too

Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe
out of 100 can.

i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht
I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, a occdrnig to a rscheearch
at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod
are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit
pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm.
Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the
wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!
if you can raed tihs forwrad it
 
Which does not excuse future generations of idiots who can't spell, or know the differences between similar sounding words that are spelled differently.

All this proves is that 55 percent of the population could probably play Scrabble.
 
I have no problem with it at all. I tend to look a whole clusters of words at a time when I read. It's only confusing when you try to read it letter by letter.
 
skunkape said:
I have no problem with it at all. I tend to look a whole clusters of words at a time when I read. It's only confusing when you try to read it letter by letter.
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Right, that is how most people reportedly read and what previous versions of this claim to show. This version is just cheezier unfortunately.
 
I can read it too... (And English is not even my first language).

P.S. Looks like them 55 plepoe are all members of this forum. Azanmig stuff!
 
I hate to break it to you, but 100% of the population can read this. It uses a trick of the human brain where only the first and last letters of a word need to be accurate to be able to read the word. The brain fills in the rest.

The 55/100 think is complete bullshite:)
 
A quick look on the Internet and you will also find this comment:

"All three (of the following) sentences were randomised according to the "rules" described in the meme. The first and last letters have stayed in the same place and all the other letters have been moved. However, I suspect that your experience is the same as mine, which is that the texts get progressively more difficult to read.

[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif][SIZE=+1]1) A vheclie epxledod at a plocie cehckipont near the UN haduqertares in Bagahdd on Mnoday kilinlg the bmober and an Irqai polcie offceir. [/SIZE][/FONT]

[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif][SIZE=+1]2) Big ccunoil tax ineesacrs tihs yaer hvae seezueqd the inmcoes of mnay pneosenirs.[/SIZE][/FONT]

[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif][SIZE=+1]3) A dootcr has aimttded the magltheuansr of a tageene ceacnr pintaet who deid aetfr a hatospil durg blendur. [/SIZE][/FONT]

In other words, whether or not you can easily read scrambled letter passages really has more to do with the choice of words in the passage. My guess is that most people can read the original message quite easily. This all goes to show how important it is to set research parameters honestly. I would bet that most of us have to stop and think a moment about some of the above words in order to decipher the meaning, whereas the original passage was a cinch.
 
Gareth said:
I hate to break it to you, but 100% of the population can read this. It uses a trick of the human brain where only the first and last letters of a word need to be accurate to be able to read the word. The brain fills in the rest.

The 55/100 think is complete bullshite:)
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I mentioned I suspected most people can read it and that the 55/100 remark is probably wrong.

So long as the person can read the language and isn't blind and/or in a coma etc.
 
Gareth said:
I hate to break it to you, but 100% of the population can read this. It uses a trick of the human brain where only the first and last letters of a word need to be accurate to be able to read the word. The brain fills in the rest.

The 55/100 think is complete bullshite:)
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What about dyslexics? They might have trouble. Illiterates definately will.
 
Martha162 said:
In other words, whether or not you can easily read scrambled letter passages really has more to do with the choice of words in the passage. My guess is that most people can read the original message quite easily. This all goes to show how important it is to set research parameters honestly. I would bet that most of us have to stop and think a moment about some of the above words in order to decipher the meaning, whereas the original passage was a cinch.
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I read them fine except for the lat sentence where I got hung up on the word "manslaughter". I'd say the choice of words isn't as important as the length of those words.
 
55/100's of the population are non-English-speaking where I live. I can't really blame'em for that...being as I don't know their language, either.
 
Gareth said:
I hate to break it to you, but 100% of the population can read this. It uses a trick of the human brain where only the first and last letters of a word need to be accurate to be able to read the word. The brain fills in the rest.

The 55/100 think is complete bullshite:)
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Yeah I thought I had seen a article about it ages ago saying that all of us (who can read) should be able to read words and sentences etc written like this.

Still as Tommy Allison said earlier, it doesn't give those people who are useless at spelling the excuse to spell badly willy-nilly ... well not in my local vicinity anyway (i have this terrible affliction which doesn't prevent me from taking a chainsaw to someone in my vicinity who can't spell and separating their willy from their nilly :D).
 
I seem to have a visual word sense that perhaps is more attuned than many people as typos definitely drive me crazy whether they are legitimate typos or spelling errors. My eyes also go right to words that are used incorrectly such as "your" for "you're." In addition, incorrectly spelled words instantly don't "look right" to me. Maybe I should consider a second job as a proofreader.;)

As to the three sentences, I, too, only got hung up on a few words, but my point was that to read the lines was not as completely effortless as it was in the original passage.
 
Aaron LeClair said:
I got hung up on manslaugher too I think.
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me too...and I don't know what kind of a teenager he was without really deciphering the next 2 words. Other than that, I've read all of these easily.
The headlines were a little trickier tho, so maybe for some people, word choice makes a difference.
 
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