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Nov 26, 2012 10:00:31 #
Good example of a Brain Study: If you can read this OUT LOUD you have a strong mind.
And better than that: Alzheimer's is a long, long, ways down the road before it ever gets anywhere near you.
To my "selected" strange-minded friends:
If you can read the following paragraph, forward it on to your friends and the person that sent it to you with 'yes' in the subject line. Only great minds can read this. This is weird, but interesting!
7H15 M3554G3
53RV35 7O PR0V3
H0W 0UR M1ND5 C4N
D0 4M4Z1NG 7H1NG5!
1MPR3551V3 7H1NG5!
1N 7H3 B3G1NN1NG
17 WA5 H4RD BU7
N0W, 0N 7H15 LIN3
Y0UR M1ND 1S
R34D1NG 17
4U70M471C4LLY
W17H 0U7 3V3N
7H1NK1NG 4B0U7 17,
B3 PROUD! 0NLY
C3R741N P30PL3 C4N
R3AD 7H15.
PL3453 F0RW4RD 1F
U C4N R34D 7H15.
If you can read this, you have a strange mind, too. Only 55 people out of 100 can.
I cdnuolt blveiee that I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd what I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in what oerdr the ltteres in a word are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is that the frsit and last ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can still raed it whotuit a pboerlm. This is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the word as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? Yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!
And better than that: Alzheimer's is a long, long, ways down the road before it ever gets anywhere near you.
To my "selected" strange-minded friends:
If you can read the following paragraph, forward it on to your friends and the person that sent it to you with 'yes' in the subject line. Only great minds can read this. This is weird, but interesting!
7H15 M3554G3
53RV35 7O PR0V3
H0W 0UR M1ND5 C4N
D0 4M4Z1NG 7H1NG5!
1MPR3551V3 7H1NG5!
1N 7H3 B3G1NN1NG
17 WA5 H4RD BU7
N0W, 0N 7H15 LIN3
Y0UR M1ND 1S
R34D1NG 17
4U70M471C4LLY
W17H 0U7 3V3N
7H1NK1NG 4B0U7 17,
B3 PROUD! 0NLY
C3R741N P30PL3 C4N
R3AD 7H15.
PL3453 F0RW4RD 1F
U C4N R34D 7H15.
If you can read this, you have a strange mind, too. Only 55 people out of 100 can.
I cdnuolt blveiee that I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd what I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in what oerdr the ltteres in a word are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is that the frsit and last ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can still raed it whotuit a pboerlm. This is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the word as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? Yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!
Nov 26, 2012 10:14:56 #
Nov 26, 2012 11:35:27 #
If you can read this then you understand my username...
Welcome to LEET (1337) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet
Welcome to LEET (1337) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet
Nov 26, 2012 12:51:10 #
Nov 26, 2012 13:13:11 #
Nov 26, 2012 14:50:46 #
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I wouldn't say that in church, but yep.
I wouldn't say that in church, but yep.
Nov 27, 2012 05:36:29 #
Nov 27, 2012 06:32:28 #
I've never met anyone who can't read it. This has gone around many times.
Nov 27, 2012 06:57:51 #
Wabbit
Loc: Arizona Desert
philmurfin wrote:
Good example of a Brain Study: If you can read thi... (show quote)
Hey Doc ..... you're gonna be in deep s---t when the grammar police here see it
Nov 27, 2012 08:16:06 #
Nov 27, 2012 08:28:31 #
Nov 27, 2012 08:33:51 #
Nov 27, 2012 08:40:14 #
Snecko wrote:
I've never met anyone who can't read it. This has gone around many times.
I tend to agree with you. I've seen similar emails that said that only 15% of readers could understand it. My guess is that most people can (or could) but some people just give up after the first few seconds thinking that it is just gibberish. My belief is that if it was first explained to them that almost 'everyone has the ability to read it' that almost everyone would eventually be able to read it.
Nov 27, 2012 09:00:49 #
This is a slightly different example of reading comprehension but I thought it would be interesting to add it to the general conversation.
My wife is a 5th grade teacher, with a specialty in English, and she periodically will be assigned after school classes with students who have shown difficulty in reading, both with comprehension and the speed at which they read. I once substituted as a reading coach. It was my first time and I was supposed to just help them with words they were having difficulty with. One of the little girls I was coaching was telling me that her problem was that by the time she did manage to finish reading something she had forgotten what the whole story was about, because she was spending so much time concentrating on the more difficult words.
I decided to tell her about an article I had recently read that had been written by Bill Cosby, the comedian. He was very interested in helping children to read and he suggested a method where the child would first read through the article or book pages, reading only the first sentence and then last sentence of each paragraph, ignoriong the others. The idea was that a well constructed paragraph will introduce the general subject of the paragraph in the first sentence and have some type of conclusion in the last sentence. Since their assigned reading materials were either from books or magazine articles, the authors (professional writers) tended to have well constructed paragraphs.
After practicing this for about 15 minutes she began to get very good at it and I called my wife over to show here how well the little girl had progressed. My wife had her read through a short magazine article and was dumbfounded to see that the little girl had somehow increased her reading speed about 10-fold and her compreshension of the magazine article was about 50%, which was a huge improvement over where she had been previously.
When I proudly explained to my wife the method I had taught the little girl my wife said, "Don't do that. How do you ever expect them to learn the right way?"
Of course, she was probably right but I always thought that that was a good technique to teach anyway even if they were to do it first, then go back and read the whole article through.
My wife is a 5th grade teacher, with a specialty in English, and she periodically will be assigned after school classes with students who have shown difficulty in reading, both with comprehension and the speed at which they read. I once substituted as a reading coach. It was my first time and I was supposed to just help them with words they were having difficulty with. One of the little girls I was coaching was telling me that her problem was that by the time she did manage to finish reading something she had forgotten what the whole story was about, because she was spending so much time concentrating on the more difficult words.
I decided to tell her about an article I had recently read that had been written by Bill Cosby, the comedian. He was very interested in helping children to read and he suggested a method where the child would first read through the article or book pages, reading only the first sentence and then last sentence of each paragraph, ignoriong the others. The idea was that a well constructed paragraph will introduce the general subject of the paragraph in the first sentence and have some type of conclusion in the last sentence. Since their assigned reading materials were either from books or magazine articles, the authors (professional writers) tended to have well constructed paragraphs.
After practicing this for about 15 minutes she began to get very good at it and I called my wife over to show here how well the little girl had progressed. My wife had her read through a short magazine article and was dumbfounded to see that the little girl had somehow increased her reading speed about 10-fold and her compreshension of the magazine article was about 50%, which was a huge improvement over where she had been previously.
When I proudly explained to my wife the method I had taught the little girl my wife said, "Don't do that. How do you ever expect them to learn the right way?"
Of course, she was probably right but I always thought that that was a good technique to teach anyway even if they were to do it first, then go back and read the whole article through.
Nov 27, 2012 09:06:13 #
sounds interesting...
didn't work with your post... will try it somewhere else
didn't work with your post... will try it somewhere else
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