Assumingly only 55% of the population can read this

[usrael]

Can you read this?


fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too


Cna yuo raed tihs? Rceraehesrs cliam 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? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot
slpeling was ipmorantt! if you can raed tihs forwrad it.


rgredas,

uresal

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[Flobber]

Can you read this?


fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too


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? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot
slpeling was ipmorantt! if you can raed tihs forwrad it.


rgredas,

uresal

Great, now we've got people posting quotes straight from the wall of Jimmy Johns Sandwiches...

I like the Country Club.

 

[Doctor Bagel]

I can read it, but it makes my brain hurt. 😱

 

[Doctor Octopus]

looks likes everyone can read it

Great, now we've got people posting quotes straight from the wall of Jimmy Johns Sandwiches...

I like the Country Club.

 

[usrael]

looks likes everyone can read it

yikes...I knew I should have asked for references 🙂

 

[BAM!]

i read this same paragraph on a Hallmark card, but it said it was a Harvard study, not a cambridge one.

 

[usrael]

i read this same paragraph on a Hallmark card, but it said it was a Harvard study, not a cambridge one.

no sorry..it is a Cambridge study. You must have read it wrong. Thats OK there a few other people out there like you 😉

 

[ShyRem]

When I first saw this, I thought it must be a joke. I had no problems at all reading it and just tore through it at darn near normal speed.

always knew I was a bit weird.

 

[CCEMTP2DOC]

When I first saw this, I thought it must be a joke. I had no problems at all reading it and just tore through it at darn near normal speed.

always knew I was a bit weird.

Me too!! I am so dran srmat.

 

[ils]

read your mumbo jumbo just fine...but that's cuz of adderall...what's your point?

 

[Risa]

We had a slide of something like this in my intro psych class in college. Didn't hear anything about 55% though... the impression I got from the lecture was that it's a general human thing.

 

[hirundo82]

Didn't hear anything about 55% though... the impression I got from the lecture was that it's a general human thing.

Maybe only 55% of the population are really human?

 

[Willow]

http://www.snopes.com/language/apocryph/cambridge.asp

 

[tifa]

that's pretty cool

 

[thackl]

My wife showed something like this to a bunch of people at her work and said a bunch of them couldn't read it 😕

 

[glorytaker]

I'm not surprised. I read in Chinese the same way since there are no letters and each word stands by itself so that you are reading each word.

 

[Pegsie]

Reminds me of all those drunken IMs my friends send me...perhaps I have an acquired skill in reading such nonsense...

 

[JayQuah]

Could it be that only 55 percent of the population can read PERIOD?
That's like saying, "half of all people have below average intelligence".

 

[CavalierMD]

Glad to see the future doctors of the world can read... but "assumingly" is not a word... 🙄

 

[DrHopeless]

I had trouble at first, but after a 2 or 3 lines I was able to read it. Kinda weird..... But base on the stat that we got here, either we all shared something beside medicine or they are just plain wrong.

 

[saradoor]

Can you read this?


fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too


Cna yuo raed tihs? Rceraehesrs cliam 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? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot
slpeling was ipmorantt! if you can raed tihs forwrad it.


rgredas,

uresal

Olny 55% of the sbujetcs colud bceasue ~45% of tehm wree not ntavie sepkares or ililetarte 🙂

 

[JayQuah]

Olny 55% of the sbujetcs colud bceasue ~45% of tehm wree not ntavie sepkares or ililetarte 🙂

I will thusly direct you to my previous post: only 55% of the population can read.

 

[saradoor]

I will thusly direct you to my previous post: only 55% of the population can read.

There is a difference between being illiterate and being a non-native speaker 🙂 When you are not fluent in a language, you may not be able to read a paragraph if the words are not spelled correctly. Just think of how you will read a paragraph of text in a foreign language which you are not fluent. To equate a non-native speaker as illiterate is not entirely accurate IMHO 🙂

 

[usrael]

I will thusly direct you to my previous post: only 55% of the population can read.

perhaps the original researchers had trouble with numbers as well and actually meant 5.5% , thats a bit closer.

 

[jocg27]

assumingly?

 

[JayQuah]

perhaps the original researchers had trouble with numbers as well and actually meant 5.5% , thats a bit closer.

haha, they're trying to test if it works with decimal points too...it doesn't matter where you put them.

 

[MattD]

All kidding aside, I'm kinda curious exactly what mechanism is at work there. I can think of two theories. One is that the brain truly can retrieve the appropriate word meme based solely on the first and last letters (and perhaps length) of the word, and the other that the brain is just extremely good at descrambling letters unconsciously. The implication of the first is that it doesn't matter what the interior letters are, they could be the wrong letters or even just a series of placeholders and the brain would still be able to get it. The second would require that all the letters be correct and present, just out of order. I tend to doubt the second idea, simply because those letter descrambler word games are so darn hard, and also because the framing letters being there helps so much, indicating at least a little bit of a sorting must take place in the brain to narrow down the possibilities. Of course, like all things mental, it's probably a combination of elements. Any thoughts?

 

[MossPoh]

Heh. I read it without problem...not bragging I am just a speed reader and rarely look at the full word anyway.....It is nice being able to read 400 page books in 2 hours without losing much information 😀 (Doesn't apply to science stuff...since that is much more dense...all of my Lit for German though..)

 

[ambientbaby]

Looks a bit like the first few questions on my step 1 now that I think about it...

 

[CristaGalli]

I can read it all except the signed name of the post ; uresal

 

[CristaGalli]

Nevermind, i just saw the username of the op. For a while I was trying to figure out what common name it could be, but then thought it must be a unique name.

 

[Daddydoc]

It reminds me of reading about half of the posts in the pre-med forums.

 

[sweetpeamd09]

Maybe only 55% of the population are really human?

It all makes sense now...

 

[PBandJ]

Glad to see the future doctors of the world can read... but "assumingly" is not a word... 🙄

yeah, i think the desired word was presumably.

 

[usrael]

yeah, i think the desired word was presumably.

you're right.

 

[maver1ck84]

97 percent of the US population is literate

 

[saradoor]

97 percent of the US population is literate

Where did you get this data? Can you back it up?

Excerpt from this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_rate :

In the United States, one in seven people (more than 40 million people) can barely read a job offer or utility bill, which arguably makes them functionally illiterate in a developed country such as the US. In 2003, the National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL), conducted by the US Department of Education, found that fourteen percent of American adults scored at this “below basic” level in prose literacy.

Note:
NAAL site with data: http://nces.ed.gov/NAAL/

 

[YouDontKnowJack]

don't read too much into this.

it doesn't mean you're smart.

most people can read upside down too.

 

[vincikai]

wow kool i can do speed readin on this too 😵 this is crazy lol maybe is just because i am a bad speller so most of my notes reads like that

 

[Hard24Get]

Glad to see the future doctors of the world can read... but "assumingly" is not a word... 🙄

What's wrong with a little neologism in someone who is otherwise symptom-free? Isn't that sort of a sign of intelligence (mastering the word roots enough to come up with different combos)?

 

[Jeru]

fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too

😀 for anyone who cannot read it you can always copy & paste it into Microsoft Word and run spell check! 😀

Hehe