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[robert551069]

Acrcodnig to rsarech by Cmdgriae Uvinsteiy, it deos not mttaer waht odrer the lttrees are in as all we raed is the frsit and lsat lttrees of ecah wrod.
Part of a paragraph written in wimp.com/archives in 2010

[looobylooo]

Yeh, I've seen this before, Robert - it's very clever isn't it! :o)

[kippyboo]

I dnot bveliee it waht a laod of pppoyocck

[commoner]

Wonder why these guys waste money on this nonsense...better to research something worth while....medical problems for instance...

[netibiza]

¡¡sƃuıɥʇ əƃuɐɹʇs ƃuıpɐəɹ sɯəlqoɹd ʎuɐ pɐɥ ɹəʌəu

[emmie]

netbiza, i did get it, just..

[beckersjay]

How much did it cost Cmdgriae Uvinsteiy to produce this drivel?

[FredPuli43]

It's part of studying the brain's processes.

It's useful in understanding how we read words, how the brain performs the task. This is important in understanding, for example, why poor readers perform badly, why some people are dyslexic, and why some people who have suffered some brain damage sometimes fail to recognise some words or lose some ability to read and also why many don't. Many well-educated people are poor spellers.Why? If we know exactly what happens when they try to recall the spelling of words which they've seen many times, yet it doesn't happen to others, we'd be learning something about the brain's working in each case, which may have wider implications in medicine.

Studying the brain hardly seems as waste of money.

[cathfromsaron]

that is good news, because that is how i type!