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| If You Can Raed Tihs, You Msut Be Raelly Smrat |
| 2009-03-31 |
| Chances are you've seen this in your inbox: "Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteers be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl 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." Chances are you also understand it. It purports that the order of the letters inside a given word doesn't matter, as long as the first and last letters of each word are in the right place. You can read the words because the human mind reads words as a whole, and not letter-by-letter. |
| Posted by:GolfBravoUSMC |
| #14 My IQ test was done pre-high school. I lived in a fraternity in College. Think it changed? No (although brain cell numbers may have....) Life experiences (stumbling through, successfully...?) matter. Not a number. Did you learn from bad experiences? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2009-03-31 21:41 |
| #13 OP, I bet you're right. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2009-03-31 21:11 |
| #12 After 40-something years of reading what my dyslexic wife writes, I don't find this surprising at all. It does kind of make it difficult to proof-read stuff if you're in a hurry, though. RJ - I'd bet good money that more than half of all Rantburgers have an IQ of 130 or over. If they don't have it when they come here, they do after reading this site for two or three years! |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2009-03-31 18:32 |
| #11 Where is Muck-4-Doo when you need him? |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2009-03-31 18:20 |
| #10 Somewhere, a teachers union representative is writing up the lesson plan right now entitled "Spelling is Overrated, So Don't Worry About It"... Don't you mean: "Smowhaere, a taechres uinon rpresnetatvive si rwiting up teh leson panl rghit nwo enittilded "Splling is ovreated, so dan't weorry abute it." I can spell I just can't type. |
| Posted by: Shinetle Poodle8682 2009-03-31 17:00 |
| #9 g(r)omgoru nailed it. This idea works as long as you are reading words that you already know. You come to a word that's new to you and you will be stumped. I remember when California tried to abandon phonics in the school system in favor of a "whole language" approach. Total disaster but nothing new for California. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2009-03-31 12:47 |
| #8 Somewhere, a teachers union representative is writing up the lesson plan right now entitled "Spelling is Overrated, So Don't Worry About It"... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2009-03-31 12:17 |
| #7 RJ, are you certain the correct term isn't "Special"? |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2009-03-31 12:11 |
| #6 By the way, I've been IQ tested at 141 repeatedly. (To be sure they weren't kidding me) By the way 120 is genius level 130 and above is considered "Gifted'. I'm very lucky. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2009-03-31 11:57 |
| #5 I noted the errors but otherwise read it OK. He's right, maybe that's why I understand Joseph Mendola? |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2009-03-31 11:53 |
| #4 This guy must be Joe Biden's speech writer. |
| Posted by: Jack is Back! 2009-03-31 10:04 |
| #3 Finally language and spelling for ganstas and dyslexics. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2009-03-31 09:32 |
| #2 the human mind reads words as a whole, and not letter-by-letter. We already have a generation of semi-illiterates because of this shit. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2009-03-31 08:35 |
| #1 Dran. Too good to be ture. |
| Posted by: Free Radical 2009-03-31 06:56 |