HOW MANY Fs' CAN YOU COUNT..

ToughGong · Postby **ToughGong** » Sat Sep 05, 2009 9:18 pm

In the follwing statement :?:

FINISHED FILES ARE THE RESULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE EXPERIENCE OF MANY YEARS.

Abdi_westldn · Postby **Abdi_westldn** » Sat Sep 05, 2009 9:21 pm

ToughGong · Postby **ToughGong** » Sat Sep 05, 2009 9:29 pm

Apparently, most people find 3 or 4.The thing is that the brain usually overlooks the "OF"s because they aren't nouns and because the letter isn't pronounced f but v. Those who are not very proficient in English all found 6 Fs (that is not to say that if you find 6 you're not proficient in English - you may just be a genius!)

Enemy_Of_Mad_Mullah · Postby **Enemy_Of_Mad_Mullah** » Sat Sep 05, 2009 9:33 pm

Advo · Postby **Advo** » Sat Sep 05, 2009 9:35 pm

Following, Finished, Files, Of, Scientific, Of.

paidmonk · Postby **paidmonk** » Sat Sep 05, 2009 9:42 pm

Wrong, Advo.

The 'following' part didn't count.

There are actually THREE 'ofs'

BaasAbuur · Postby **BaasAbuur** » Sat Sep 05, 2009 9:43 pm

I could only find 3 until I read your explanation. :lol:

The brain works in a very strange way.

ToughGong · Postby **ToughGong** » Sat Sep 05, 2009 9:46 pm

BaasAbuur wrote:I could only find 3 until I read your explanation. The brain works in a very strange way.

Yeah counted the same number too, strange innit

paidmonk · Postby **paidmonk** » Sat Sep 05, 2009 11:33 pm

LOL I read it back a few times and seemeyer is right, proficient readers only get 3. I read it now at my usual speed, and I only got 3. I missed all the of's.

I think proficient readers miss all the preposition words like "of" because our brain immediately knows its there subconsciously but wants to get to the meat of the sentence by avoiding reading them aloud in our heads.

Slower folk read everything, slowly too. I remember my black classmates in grade school would take a quarter-hour to read small book passages. :lol:

ToughGong · Postby **ToughGong** » Sun Sep 06, 2009 2:18 am

^^
That's true.We tend to scan and fill in the blanks

Abdi_westldn · Postby **Abdi_westldn** » Sun Sep 06, 2009 9:40 pm

Lol I am most likely a genius Seemeyer. :mrgreen:

ToughGong · Postby **ToughGong** » Sun Sep 06, 2009 9:42 pm

Abdi_westldn wrote:Lol I am most likely a genius Seemeyer.

Definitely cuz

Siciid85 · Postby **Siciid85** » Mon Sep 07, 2009 12:19 am

Now answer this one:

Mary's mom has 4 daughters. Li, la, lu. What is the name of her fourth daughter?

sexy-kitten · Postby **sexy-kitten** » Mon Sep 07, 2009 12:25 am

AEIOU?

Lo?

Amadeus101 · Postby **Amadeus101** » Mon Sep 07, 2009 12:25 am

Siciid85 wrote:Now answer this one:

Mary's mom has 4 daughters. Li, la, lu. What is the name of her fourth daughter?

Mary

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