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."

Frsit Psot

[Harmonious Botch]

If yuo corss yuor eeys smoetemis, you sohlud be albe to raed tihs qitue eailsy. I terid it, and it mdae all the sepllnig msitaeks on salsdhot go aawy. Hvewoer, it ddi not ipormve Sttucle Mkoney's eitding.

Patented

[Anonymous Coward]

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...

Anchor Man Reference

[ttapper04]

"lock on to two different letters simultaneously about half the time."


...half the time, every time.

That explains it!

[DeeVeeAnt]

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.

Re:RTFA

[zeromorph]

I'll keep my eyes crossed for that.

Re:"Bnikaerg-dwon"pemenohs allacitamotuy, aletaruc

[dzurn]

Sorry, I mistyped a word:

Atluds who rley olny on shgit-rgnidaeg teuqinhces rleray gnia mcuh foitcnun

should be

Atluds who rley olny on shgit-rgnidaeg teuqinhces rleray gian mcuh foitcnun

In my defense, I must say it was really hard to proofread.

Re:"Bnikaerg-dwon"pemenohs allacitamotuy, aletaruc

[Anonymous Coward]

Thanks. Now I know why I was having trouble reading it.

Re: Dotters reading articles

[TaoPhoenix]

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.