Brain and eye teaser

Can you read the words in bold below? (responses are anonymous)

  • Yes, I'm one of the 55.

    Votes: 21 100.0%

  • No, I must not be one of the 55.

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Who cares about silly polls like this anyway?

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    21
  • Poll closed .
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Steel_Magnolia

Steel_Magnolia

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Here's a brain and eye teaser for you. I'd credit this but I got it in an e-mail from family and I don't know where it originated. I'm one of the 55, are you?

[FONT=&quot]fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too

Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 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![/FONT]
 
From the looks of the poll so far it is more that 55%, at least out of this group.

It would be interesting to see what percentage of lesser educated vs percentage of more educated folks make up the 45% (not just college education, daily reading and study on any number of topics counts as education to me.)
 
Read same speed as a properly smithed document. Weird part is I was wondering how I was reading it so fast while I was reading it:confused:
 
One thing, (incorrectly spelled from excerpt)"the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae."
(correctly spelled from excerpt)"the only important thing is that the first and last letter be in the right place"

But an earlier sentence in the example (incorrectly spelled from excerpt) Cna yuo raed tihs?
(correctly spelled from excerpt) Can you read this?

CAN and CNA
YOU and YUO
violate this statement! :notrust:

The real issue is that people who CAN read and read WELL have no problem in deciphering the jumble provided. We have "autocorrect" turned on in our brains to compensate for mistakes. Also it is a thought that is being expressed. It is easier to do the further you go because it talks about one story. How many of us stress a JUMBLE in the paper because there is NO context to put the word into?

We can decipher each item as a whole because we have the sum of the word. If letters were left out, it would be a "garbled" message. We solve problems like this everyday. The trick is not to only identify the word but find the meaning.

The studies haven't been identified and Snopes can't determine it either.... I think a bunch of kids got together and said, "I bet slpeling
si ont htat omptiratn!"
 
Thank you Tom, for correcting the poll so that people know that responses are anonymous.

And Frixxxx, that is interesting to me that you caught the inconsistencies. You are one smart 4X guy!

Maggie
 
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