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Posted by: Britain Smith Sep 18 2003, 09:45 AM

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe.

Posted by: Boldylocks Sep 18 2003, 09:54 AM

did teh wohle wlord get tihs ysetrady?
I was emailed this little passage at 11:00am, its neat, and a little scary that it made it to this board.

Posted by: Brad Roberts Sep 18 2003, 11:59 AM

Yes.. all of our freinds that sit at work decided to email the same damn thing to all of us.


Just in email.. I have it 9 times now.



B

Posted by: ChrisReale Sep 18 2003, 12:01 PM

funny thing is, I could read it

Posted by: Brad Roberts Sep 18 2003, 12:03 PM

Umm Chris.. that was the whole point of the study.


B

Posted by: SirAndy Sep 18 2003, 01:46 PM

it werks ...

somewhat related, they did a similar study a while back where they
took a sentence and first cut off the upper 3rd of the letters,
then 2/3 then 1/2 then 3/4 then 4/5 .... you get the idea.

then they had 2 groups of people trying to read it,
the first group was sober, the second was on speed.

guess what, the guys that were on speed could still read the stuff
fluidly that was cut down by 4/5 (1/5 of the letters remaining),
the guys that were sober had to quit at 1/2 ...

not sure what that means for life as we know it
Andy

Posted by: tat2dphreak Sep 18 2003, 01:52 PM

NO!! surely the people on speed were more alert and intent!

I can't imagine!
j/k

I know in college I tested that theory before finals... sometimes it worked... sometimes it didn't

Posted by: Andyrew Sep 18 2003, 04:49 PM

My english teacher showed the class, but I already saw it last night, weird how it hit so many people...

Andrew

Posted by: TimT Sep 18 2003, 04:52 PM

sorry guys thats old news, I saw that last friday..