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? I think that this is very pausible and that our monds probably don't read the word but read the word as a whole as this study was supposed to prove. SO can you read it and if so do you find this to be plausible? (I sound like myth busters xD) Please don't double post - Commy
i believe the human mind csa function in more then one way when it comes to unscrambling letters since grade school we been learning how to spell 99.9% of the English language so when we see a scrambled lettering our mind tends to fix it and we can make out the word to pronounce these words
Anyone who is fluent in English can read that, not 55%, I've seen it a bunch. 99% of people can who know English. And yes its not hard.
I could read it all straight off except "rset" because obviously set is a word so my mind just read that and dropped the r =]
I think it works most of the time, but sometimes if you order the letters in a word, it can be a bit confusing as to what it says. Although this is abusing the system, it doesn't always work >_>
Believe it or not, this is one of the principles upon which "Imperial Exam" is based. It's difficult because, Yes, we did read "aslo" as a word. We also read "wokring" as a word. It's all the same idea. Neopets just played on the fact that we humans take words as a whole when we read. Of course, if you think about it, everything we do becomes an aggregate of the smaller things that make it up. When we're little, we DO read letter-by-letter. When we're more experienced, it's word by word. When we're just learning to drive, we have to shift gears, remember when to use turn signals, think about using the gas pedal, the brake pedal, et cetera. When we're more experienced, we just get in the car and drive - our mind takes care of the rest. Learning to tie a shoe blah-blah then you can do it without thinking. All we can do is merely an aggregate of the smaller things we know how to do. Kinda nifty, if you ask me.
Everyone cites that thing as evidence that our minds can read words regardless of the order and crap. It's baloney. Look at that passage. They didnt really scramble up the letters, only the groups of letters. Let me redo it. I cdnuolt biveele taht I cluod alltcuay utednanrsd waht I was rdanieg. The paonmneahl pweor of the hmuan mnid, ainccdrog to rhcscereah at Cgabrdmie Uvtinerisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny inoptramt 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 bsaucee the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Anzamig huh? harder, isn't it?
I don't think it's harder The mind is just brilliant And even those who do not think english are able to read that, as I'm Dutch and I can read it. I do think you need to have a good basic English knowledge however.
That's quite true :lol: I had my hard time playing imperial exam bacause of this phenomenon. But i guess for the Chinese version, the "algorithm" can be very distinct. We have to recognize whether the shape inside this Chinese letter reasonable or not, instead of reading the first & the last parts.
I can't belive I can read that!, but reserach is research. Now I just need to know why the sky is blue...
On a side note, this is the same reason that your veins are blue (ITS NOT BECAUSE BLOOD IS BLUE WHEN IT CONTAINS NO OXYGEN...i hate when people say that)
Technically speaking, nothing is blue, or any color. It just absorbs all other wavelengths of visible light and appears to be a certain color. neat stuff.
Well if you define blue as the human mind's interpretation of a certain wavelength of electromagnetic radiation than blue is simply a certain wavelength (around 300nm) of radiation. Therefore calling something blue can imply that it emits that radiation... If you really wanna get bizarre and technical, you should talk about yellow...now yellow is messed up (and that's not sarcasm).
HOLY CRAP Dude, this topic and that passage is excellent xD And I highly doubt only 55% percent of English reading humans can understand that -_- But yeah, that's pretty interesting. an argument my old Chinese teacher once made against english speaking students was that english was a language of interpretation, whereas chinese is a language of representation. All of the Chinese characters represent something, whereas English words are just jumbles of the same letters that are assigned a certain meaning when they are placed in a certain order.
I have read this somewhere before in the past. Yea it is interesting to know that our minds actually function that way. Still it might only work with words that you are familiar with or more commonly use, the fact that we might be able to comprehend the passage means that the words in the passage are already deeply inrooted in us, if say a word that we weren't familiar with appeared then the outcome would have been different.