Are you smart?

Randy Orton

WC's Resident Alchoholic

Can you raed tihs? Olny srmat poelpe can.

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 deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!

AudioSavior

The research that you are referring to never actually took place. As you can see there would be no need to as anyone can read what is being typed. They wouldn't need to do research for something so obvious.

Randy Orton

WC's Resident Alchoholic

Oh well. I just copied it from another site.

Necro

VIP Room Moderator

I disagree I actually saw a study on the news about something similar...

AudioSavior

What the hell would they need to study?? lol. It takes 10 seconds to know it works.

Dr. Giganto

I have no idea what that says

AudioSavior

Snopes.com

Claim: University researchers demonstrate the order of letters within words is unimportant to reading comprehension.

Status: Undetermined.

Example: [Collected on the Internet, 2003]


Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteres are at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a tatol mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe.



Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe. ceehiro.


Origins: This little bit of intriguing linguistic trivia stormed through inboxes in September 2003. That the order of letters within words is relatively unimportant to reading comprehension as long as the first and last letters are in their proper places seems to be self-evident, as demonstrated by the ability of nearly everyone who came across this item to understand what it said (although this is a very general application — results may vary when different types of words and contexts are used), but was there really a university study to this effect?

Some additional resources for pursuing the origins of this item:
The Languagehat web site appears to have been the one to popularize it.

Uncle Jazzbeau's Gallimaufrey, the science section of Slashdot, and Matt Davis from the Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit of the University of Cambridge all have insight and ongoing discussion into the matter.

A January 2003 paper by researchers at the University of Edinburgh about "sublexical units and the split fovea" has been cited as an example of this type of research.
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It is just an internet thing passed around for years now and there is no proof any official research has been done on it.

Necro

VIP Room Moderator

According to you, of course others maybe not

AudioSavior

I think it is pretty rare for someone not to be able to read it.

Dr. Giganto

But they wouldnt know that unless they did a study. They've done studies for MUCH stupider things

Even though this study, if it did in fact happen, sounds stupid, it may actually give scientists clues into how the brain functions, especially in terms of communication. So the point may not have been to show that you can read said paragraph, but to test something else involving brain function