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Thu 28 Apr, 2005 12:15 am
Test your eyes
Count every "F" in the following text:
FINISHED FILES ARE THE RESULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS.
(See below
HOW MANY ?
3? - WRONG, THERE ARE 6.
READ IT AGAIN.
The reasoning:
The brain cannot process "OF".
Incredible or what? Go back and look again!!
Anyone who counts all 6 "Fs" on the first go is a genius. Three is normal; four is quite rare.
genius I may be, but also in my time a proof reader
I saw 5 at first glance. The 1 which I missed was actually the F in "scientific." It's a long word, and my brain must have gotten bored. Short words are nice.
but tiny words are exhausting
I didn't want to spoil things!
Y
O U D
I D N T S
M O G D O N
O T W O R R Y
Why do you say we cant process "OF"?, SINCE THERE ARE 3 they stand out like road signs. Maybe if there were only one "of" it would sneak by us.
Yeah I got 6.. but I am not a genius... I just read slow :-)
Must be something wrong with my brain. It does process of. ;-)
Must be because I'm French reading English. I've got 6 first time and then was looking for a trap.
Hmmm.. I got 4, missed the one in scientific and one OF...
I got 6. But I'm very compulsive.
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