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01/19/2007 12:14:06 PM · #1 |
fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55% of plepoe can.
I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig 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.
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01/19/2007 12:19:40 PM · #2 |
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01/19/2007 12:20:19 PM · #3 |
Yes, I can. Quite easily. I had read about this before, but hadn't ever seen it put into form.
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01/19/2007 12:22:49 PM · #4 |
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01/19/2007 12:28:14 PM · #5 |
Something my wife just sent me as I sit here at work. I thought it was interesting and thought I would pass it on here.
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01/19/2007 12:37:31 PM · #6 |
| I can. But really are the 45% of the people who can't? Interesting study of the mind. |
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01/19/2007 01:11:23 PM · #7 |
| I would expect that most people who can read can read that. |
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01/19/2007 01:15:16 PM · #8 |
| I'm guesing that the 45% of the people who can't read it, can't read English themselves. No??? |
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01/19/2007 01:19:52 PM · #9 |
| Prettly much anyone who can read English fluently should be able to read that. |
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01/19/2007 01:25:20 PM · #10 |
| Fluency is the key to reading it. Once a person can read fluently, the brain processes the words differently than when you are at the decoding stage. The eyes take in the first and last of the word and then verify the word through a quick intake of the middle letters, AND the context clues which define the meaning of the passage. |
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01/19/2007 02:02:16 PM · #11 |
| Hmmm... I can`t read it fluently :( BUT.. in my defence, I am not an english speaker, writer or reader so... that would explain the 45% :P |
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01/19/2007 02:15:57 PM · #12 |
For lots of reading on this linguistic curiosity, including how well it works in languages and alphabets besides what English uses, see this page on the Cambridge University site: //www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/~mattd/Cmabrigde/
The one thing that seems pretty certain is that there wasn't ever a Cambridge University study. And I'd bet that 45% claim is bogus, too. But it's still pretty interesting.
Even more: //www.snopes.com/language/apocryph/cambridge.asp
Message edited by author 2007-01-19 14:16:41.
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01/19/2007 02:17:43 PM · #13 |
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01/19/2007 02:19:12 PM · #14 |
yep I can with no problem at all... thats really cool though
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01/19/2007 02:19:13 PM · #15 |
show that to a student with a learning disability in either reading decoding or reading comprehension, and you'll see a student get really confused.
I've seen stuff like that to give "normal" readers a feeling of what it is like for someone with dyslexia to try and read. It's obviously not completely accurate, but it does give a pretty good sense of the frustration that can ensue. |
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01/19/2007 02:25:37 PM · #16 |
| I've seen this type of thng posted before, and every time I see it it still amazes. I can read it nearly as fast as if all the letters were in the correct places. It's especially amazing with the longer words. Context does help here; because you have learned what to expect in sentence structure, it's easier to figure out words knowing what has come before. Still, weird and amazing. |
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01/19/2007 02:28:03 PM · #17 |
Originally posted by kirbic:
I've seen this type of thng posted before, and every time I see it it still amazes. I can read it nearly as fast as if all the letters were in the correct places. It's especially amazing with the longer words. Context does help here; because you have learned what to expect in sentence structure, it's easier to figure out words knowing what has come before. Still, weird and amazing. |
In part it is because English is a very redundant encoding of information. In much the same way simple codes can be broken by letter frequency analysis and context, you can unscramble these sorts of streams of information into normal words.
If it wasn't such a redundant way of encoding information, this wouldn't work. If each letter and its position actually mattered, then it would be impossible to reassemble the original message.
While we are at it, can you read these ?
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01/19/2007 02:38:40 PM · #18 |
The "redundancy" observation has great merit. Remove one letter at a time from most words, and there are still very few candidates that match the remaining letters and total letter count. That's the basis of suggested alternatives in spell checkers.
in this case, where the central letters are scrambled, the mind has a more difficult task, but nonethless can process the information at near-normal speeds. Our "onboard analog computer" is truly an impressive device. |
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01/19/2007 02:39:55 PM · #19 |
Originally posted by Gordon:
While we are at it, can you read these ? |
The bottom circle is really interesting; if I squint really hard I can make it go from 5 to 2. |
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01/19/2007 02:41:48 PM · #20 |
Originally posted by ursula:
The bottom circle is really interesting; if I squint really hard I can make it go from 5 to 2. |
Ha, you're right... I couldn't make out the 2 at all but squinting actually makes it visible. |
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01/19/2007 02:42:20 PM · #21 |
Originally posted by Gordon:
While we are at it, can you read these ? |
Thanks for reminding me I am red/green color blind.... ;)
I couldn't even see the 2 in the second test let alone a 5. What the hell am I doing taking pictures??? |
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01/19/2007 02:43:35 PM · #22 |
Originally posted by kirbic:
The "redundancy" observation has great merit. Remove one letter at a time from most words, and there are still very few candidates that match the remaining letters and total letter count. That's the basis of suggested alternatives in spell checkers.
in this case, where the central letters are scrambled, the mind has a more difficult task, but nonethless can process the information at near-normal speeds. Our "onboard analog computer" is truly an impressive device. |
Amazing things the brain can do.
It's a bit similar to speed writing, where you write down the basics of a word in as few/small a stroke as possible, and reconstitute later. Works well in Spanish too, not only in English. In college, when I didn't know much English, I would listen to the lecture in English, and speed write everything down in Spanish. My roommate thought it was funny.
Similar in concept also to speed reading, where you'd look at chuncks of info rather than individual words.
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01/19/2007 02:43:41 PM · #23 |
I just showed these to my 5 yo son who knows his numbers, but he had trouble on some of them, especially the last one.
No one on my side of the family, anywhere, is color blind that I know of. My FIL, is red/green cb. Should I be concerned? |
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01/19/2007 02:53:52 PM · #24 |
Originally posted by karmat:
I just showed these to my 5 yo son who knows his numbers, but he had trouble on some of them, especially the last one.
No one on my side of the family, anywhere, is color blind that I know of. My FIL, is red/green cb. Should I be concerned? |
Color blindness comes through ones mother I'm pretty certain. |
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01/19/2007 02:55:11 PM · #25 |
Originally posted by nards656:
Originally posted by karmat:
I just showed these to my 5 yo son who knows his numbers, but he had trouble on some of them, especially the last one.
No one on my side of the family, anywhere, is color blind that I know of. My FIL, is red/green cb. Should I be concerned? |
Color blindness comes through ones mother I'm pretty certain. |
Well, that's what I thought, I just wanted to make sure. |
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