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Method of Reading Discovered
Scientists have discovered that the method our eyes use to process letters on a page is different than previously believed. Instead of assimilating one letter at a time our eyes actually lock on to two different letters simultaneously about half the time. "The team's results demonstrated that both eyes lock on to the same letter 53% of the time; for 39% of the time they see different letters with uncrossed eyes; and for 8% of the time the eyes are crossing to focus on different letters. A follow-up experiment with the eye-tracking equipment showed that we only see one clear image when reading because our brain fuses the different images from our eyes together."
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Since I've already patented a method to use our eyes use to process letters on a page, I'll be heading down to Texas to hash it out with the lawyers...
"lock on to two different letters simultaneously about half the time."
...half the time, every time.
It seems that technical documentation is often optimised to take advantage of this phenomenon. For instance, recent tests on IBM's Tivoli Access Manager docs caused my eyes to cross 130% of the time.
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I'll keep my eyes crossed for that.
"Hannibal's plans never work right. They just work." Amy/A-Team
In my defense, I must say it was really hard to proofread.
Thanks. Now I know why I was having trouble reading it.
Dotters read an article only 53 % of the time.
39% of the time they begin posting comments without reading the article at all.
8% of the time they read the wrong article entirely and post anyway.
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