Can You Read This?

Does this look familiar?

Only great minds can read this

This is weird, but interesting!

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! if you can raed tihs forwrad it

FORWARD ONLY IF YOU CAN READ IT

This was an email that circulated a while ago. Dr. Carm can obviously read it because she has a great mind (and many other super qualities.) But, is this as awesome as it seems?

Well, first off there was no study done at Cambridge University. Yep, you read me right! According to FoxNews, the email was originally sent out without even mentioning Cambridge University. It was added "after the Times of London interviewed a Cambridge neuropsychologist for comment."  Here are some points of the article:

~Some letters can spell multiple words.  The example used was "ponits" which could be pitons, points, pintos, potins, and pinots.

~Two and three letter words do not change at all, so they are spelled correctly. In the email almost half the words are spelled correctly. This keeps the grammar in control.

~The email only moves the adjacent letters, which is easier to read. Which is easier? Porbelm or pbleorm?

~People can read the email, yes. However, they read it much slower than if it were spelled correctly. A study at Durham found that "the students read 255 words per minute when the sentences were normal, and 227 words per minute when the letters were transposed, a 12 percent decrease in overall reading speed."

So, sorry that you are not as smart or talented as you once thought you were.  Your brain is not as special as you thought (at least with this.)

Obviously, Dr. Carm is still extremely intelligence. [But, you didn't really need to be told that, right?]

Article can be found at FoxNews.com—If You Can Raed Tihs, You Msut Be Raelly Smrat. Published March 31, 2009.



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