Posted on 11/13/2004 8:17:53 PM PST by ETERNAL WARMING
Count the "F's" in the following text:
FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE- SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIF- IC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS...(see below)
Managed it ? Scroll down only after you have counted them, okay?
How many ?
None. Whatever the heck those things are, they're not legs.
Wierd what people actual discuss on this forum....
anyway... I counted 4 at first...then when I read that it was supposed to be 6 I went back and found 5. Then, to prove there was only 5 I did a control 'f'...searched for F's...and found 6.
Well, I know stupidity is not my problem; laziness maybe.
Well...ummmm.... you... darnit! TROLL!
I don't see it that way. Read 2 books each month for 3 months and all the sudden, you realize you are digesting pages at a high rate. Then when a wanker asks you "did you see the word THE repeated 39 times on those two pages" and you respond "no, I saw it 12 times" will this whole thread come into focus.
TROLL? Not me! Just makes me wierd too since I participated in the discussion...lol :0)
I don't know. Since you're so smart why don't you explain exactly why so many people who can read just fine, many who have advanced degrees (such as myself, in engineering - or see the lawyer in a previous reply, and probably many others), even on repeat trials, even *knowing* there's probably some kind of trick here so they're extra careful, still count only 3.
I guess I might just as well wonder what kind of moron would just assume that, since it's so easy for him (or her) to count correctly, anyone who counts wrong is a "moron."
The study of "human factors" is a constant learning experience - people see and percieve things in far different ways.
I admit I have no freakin idea why I never saw the f's in the of's. My best guess is that, when reading, I automatically don't "read" small, common words like "of" - I just kind of skim over them while my brain automatically process the word as an "idea."
Also, I'm sure the "auditory" explanation has a lot to do with it - subconciously (or something) in my brain I was "listening" for the hard-f sound while reading the sentence, thereby totally ignoring the v-sound in "of."
anyway, for me this is evidence that, very often, people just don't see things totally accurately, even when the things are right in front of their face, and even when the things they don't see seem to be ridiculously obvious to many other people.
What black dots? And does this work better with or without my reading glasses -- lol.
"I can read an entire book, know exactly what happened to each character in detail and not know the name of the character, perhaps vaguely I might get the name. "
Ditto..I too read at least 4 books a week. I can tell the plot of a book I read 30 years ago, but can't tell you the title of the book I'm currently reading..and often not the author. Interesting, no? I've read alot of mysteries. I can tell within the first two pages whether I've read it before or not..even going back to the 60's. An interesting case, seeing that I can't remember titles.
Come to think of it, I got all F's in school so my brain is probably predisposed to seeing them.
ROFL
I got 8 but I always knew I was smarter than everyone else. I look down on mensa.......
In real life, I am a retired lawyer and a speed reader who would not pay attention, but the test itself requires you slow down and read in a different way--not for content but only to find the f's. If you can't figure that out and the fact that the goofy hyphens are to through you off, well........
What's next, Fun With Cancer?
Send your spell checker back to school. LOL!
of course I figured that out. that's what I did. I slowed down and just looked at the words, looking for f's. I found 3. then I went back a couple times to be sure, and still found 3.
and the fact that the goofy hyphens are to through you off, well........
I really didn't think about the two goofy hyphens. I was just counting the f's.
One thing this reminds me of is an experience I had tutoring algebra a couple years ago. I was tutoring a very bright girl. A couple of times she just read the formula in a problem wrong, and then, of course she would get the wrong answer -
Like, the equasion was, say, 3x * 2 = 50. I'd have her read it and she'd say "thirty x times 2 equals fifty." I'd have her read it again and she'd look at it and just say the same thing. I'd point right to the number and have her read it and she'd say "thirty x". I'd say look again, and *finally* she'd say "OH, it's just three x!"
Like I said, this happened more than once. it was like she just got it into her head that the '3' was '30' and it was stuck there.
what I was trying to say is that sometimes people just can't see what is obvious to others. I'd imagine it happens to us all in one way or another, but I really don't understand it.
Shouldn't it be 3x=2=50?
typo--3x+2=50?
okay I give up, you win.
of course. 3x * 2 makes no sense. But I wouldn't call it a typo - I meant to type it. I just didn't think about it enough to realize my error.
So, I now know that I can't count letters, and I can't write one simple formula correctly. oh well, I try. :)
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