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DrJ
Apr 3, 2006, 03:04 PM
Wasn't sure where I could post this. This was a bulliten posted on Myspace.com. I had seen it before but Im glad it came around again... I always thought it was fascinating.


I cdnuolt blveiee that I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd what I was rdanieg. With 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!

No, there's no question here... I just wanted to share

Nez
Apr 3, 2006, 03:14 PM
Dr Jizzle.I dant no they could spek brumee? :D :D :D

A Blue Peter badge for whoever posted the original quote.As my English teacher miss Beasley would have said:" self expression might lead to Shakespeare.but this aint it..."

orange
Apr 3, 2006, 04:59 PM
Yeah that's definitely cool! I think I saw this demonstrated as part of a documentary on the brain a while back. If I remember the name of the documentary, I'll share it later on.

RickJ
Apr 4, 2006, 03:30 AM
I saw that too. Was on Discovery or the Science channel a couple months ago.

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in what oredr the ltteers in a word are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is that the frist and last ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can still raed it wouthit porbelm. This is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the word as a wlohe.

fredg
Apr 4, 2006, 06:19 AM
Hi,
Interesting.
Did you also know that MySpace is now the Number 1 website visited by Sexual Predators?
Anyway, that's what a National Network News organization said.
Forgot now which one.

DrJ
Apr 4, 2006, 10:12 AM
Yes, but it is the 8th most visited site in the world... so if sexual predators are visiting sites out there, then they would likely be visiting that one, too lol

I hear a lot of controversy over that but little girls shouldn't be giving strangers their addresses or phone numbers anyway...

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ScottGem
Apr 4, 2006, 10:22 AM
Hi,
Interesting.
Did you also know that MySpace is now the Number 1 website visited by Sexual Predators?
Anyway, that's what a National Network News organization said.
Forgot now which one.

Just curious but why do you bring that up? What possible connection does that have to the subject Jizzle was raising in sharing the quote?

If you want to start a discussion about how cyberspace is unsafe, then start one.

magprob
Apr 10, 2006, 09:43 PM
EW arege 010%

milliec
Apr 12, 2006, 12:50 AM
[QUOTE=ScottGem]Just curious but why do you bring that up? What possible connection does that have to the subject Jizzle was raising in sharing the quote?

Right.
I, too, wandered.
In any case: the subject which started this thread is well known in Psychology, it's called "the Geshtaalt effect" .
It's the same thing like when you see a square missing a corner, but in your mind, you automatically see it whole, and that's how you remember it!
Millie
:)